Orlando Ricardo Menes

About The Author

Orlando Ricardo Menes teaches in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Notre Dame, where he is a professor of English. He is also the author of several other works of poetry, including Memoria, Fetish, and Heresies (UNM Press). He lives in South Bend, Indiana.

Series by the Author

Books by Orlando Ricardo Menes

The Gospel of Wildflowers and Weeds

Poems

By Orlando Ricardo Menes
The poems in The Gospel of Wildflowers and Weeds expand the sacred within a baroque, magical-realist poetics that immerses itself in the flora and fauna of the Caribbean and the region’s complex interplay of African, Judeo-Christian, and Taíno (Arawak) cultures. Menes engages with the Cath...
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Heresies

Poems

By Orlando Ricardo Menes
Heresies is an invocation of Latin American and Caribbean culture, history, and spirituality. Through free verse and poetic forms, the collection is visually charged and sonically rich. The poems incorporate history, legend, and magical realism to create a cross-cultural baroque feeling. <...
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