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Informationen zum Autor Orlando Ricardo Menes is an associate professor of English and Faculty Fellow of the Institute for Latino Studies at the University of Notre Dame. His poetry collections include, among others, Furia: Poems and Rumba atop the Stones. Klappentext Orlando Ricardo Menes is an associate professor of English and Faculty Fellow of the Institute for Latino Studies at the University of Notre Dame. His poetry collections include! among others! Furia: Poems and Rumba atop the Stones. "Open Orlando Ricardo Menes's exquisite poetry collection Fetish, and you'll quickly see a folk sculpture of Eleggua, though I should warn you. In the Cuban Santeria religion, this deity has 101 manifestations, or roads, he may take you down. In this way, he is not unlike Menes's poems, which may lead us, in a matter of pages, from suburban Indiana to Miami to Panama to Kichwa-speaking villages in the Andes. Although the destinies of these roads offer vastly different insights, if we survive them, there is a sensibility that unifies the whole: Menes does not easily identify with grand ideologies and personal arrogance. Rather, he keeps his eye on those who go largely unrecorded by history: a poor great-uncle alienated from his own family by politics, a daughter with severe ADHD, a papa assiduously mending used furniture, a political prisoner who survives cruelty by caring for the earth's smallest creatures--lame rat, pregnant mouse, chirping cricket."--Maurice Kilwein Guevara, author of "Poema and Postmortem"--Maurice Kilwein Guevara (03/05/2013)
