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Memoria: Poems by Menes, Orlando Ricardo
by Menes, Orlando Ricardo | PB | Good
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- ISBN
- 9780807169414
- Book Title
- Memoria : Poems
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Publisher
- LSU Press
- Publication Year
- 2019
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.2 in
- Genre
- Poetry
- Topic
- General
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Item Weight
- 12.3 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 90 Pages
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Born to Cuban parents in Lima, Per , raised in Miami among political exiles, and having spent two years in Francoist Spain, Orlando Ricardo Menes pays tribute to the resilience and tradition that shape Hispanic culture across the globe while critiquing the hypermasculine characteristics embedded within. Ripe with pride and shame, beauty and aversion, Memoria relays the personal path one takes while navigating the complexities of heritage. Throughout his life, the ever-present concept of machismo has created turmoil and grief for Menes, who aligns his sensibilities with a more compassionate expression of masculinity. In poems about the Franco dictatorship and the Spanish Civil War, Menes assails the fascists' preoccupation with violence and domination as tokens of manliness. Meditations on the music of Menes's youth also underscore a young man's desire for alternative versions of manhood. Alice Cooper and Lou Reed offer examples of self-liberation from the repressive regime: "Cropped head, whitewashed face, O Lou, our goth-butch apostle / In skintight leather pants, eagle's-head buckle on a rhinestone belt . . . Our mothers horrified to have borne sons so twisted, so perverse, / Their mop sticks primed to beat us into Marlboro Men." Menes balances these unflinching criticisms with celebratory lines for Espa a as a mother country: "We . . . sailed in silence on the asphalt currents / to Madrid's Puerta del Sol, our little car / gliding like a caravel to this Gate of the Sun, / Spain's navel, point zero, her alpha and omega, / where the empire was born and died, / where every road and every life begins and ends." Menes's honest embrace of his heritage includes fond remembrance of his mother, "we talked about your house in / Havana, so close to the bay your young eyes winced / in salt air," and sincere expressions of cultural reckoning, "Nations die but blood lives forever in la memoria, / So pray to your Abuelo as you would God Himself / Who made earth, sky, and water from the void." At once rich with sensorial memories and rife with conflicts of identity, Memoria expands representations of Hispanic culture while drawing on universal themes of love, belonging, and rebellion.
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Publisher
LSU Press
ISBN-10
0807169412
ISBN-13
9780807169414
eBay Product ID (ePID)
23038709623
Product Key Features
Book Title
Memoria : Poems
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
General
Publication Year
2019
Genre
Poetry
Number of Pages
90 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9 in
Item Height
0.2 in
Item Width
6 in
Item Weight
12.3 Oz
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Intended Audience
Trade
Lc Classification Number
Ps3563.E52a6 2019
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Memoria carries us from Miami to Madrid, to "where every road and every life begins and ends," exploring feelings of exile and definitions of being a man ( macho ) imposed by family, religion, and culture. Castro, Franco, Lou Reed, and other figures become a whetstone for the narrator's burgeoning self. Delivering an impressive array of sonnets, odes, elegies, prose poems, and more, Menes unpacks the relationship between memory and its kin: identity. Memoria is a tour-de-force of form and feeling., When Orlando Ricardo Menes is at his best, and he is rarely not, he writes into the spiritual, the familial, the sexual, the sensual, the quotidian, that I find myself thinking: we need more poetry like this. His sense of line and language are superb. His eye for what ought to be obvious, a terrifying pleasure. His ear for how we hear, perhaps terrifyingly and pleasurably more so. Memoria is nothing more than a gift.
Copyright Date
2019
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2018-034712
Dewey Decimal
811/.54
Dewey Edition
23
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