The Gospel of Wildflowers and Weeds

The Gospel of Wildflowers and Weeds
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Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
Total Pages : 77
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ISBN-10 : 9780826364005
ISBN-13 : 0826364004
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Book Synopsis The Gospel of Wildflowers and Weeds by : Orlando Ricardo Menes

Download or read book The Gospel of Wildflowers and Weeds written by Orlando Ricardo Menes and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2022-08-15 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Catholic sacraments, saints’ lives, and the artistic heritage of this universal faith as well as Cuban art through the use of a variety of poetic styles across the collection. An established poet, he pays homage to those writers who have made him the Caribbean poet that he is, specifically Alejo Carpentier, José Lezama Lima, and even Hart Crane. Readers will want to join Menes on this journey as he travels the globe to explore the fantastic and the marvelous while searching for faith and divine grace.


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