Rumba Atop the Stones

by Orlando Ricardo Menes

A richly complex continuum of voices and characters inhabits these poems. An ecstatic hermit cultivates saints' body parts in a hothouse by the sea. A washerwoman invokes Osh n, orisha of love, while scrubbing laundry, and then a songbird magically appears. A fisher's acolyte son 'flies from island / to island, wreathing with rain-lilies / light houses, masts, and campanili'. An exiled Caliban meditates on the music of lifeless creatures as a source...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 190071549X
• ISBN13: 9781900715492
• Release Date: July 2001
• Publisher: Peepal Tree Press
• Length: 90 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.4" x 8.2"