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 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826363997
• ISBN13: 9780826363992
• Release Date: August 2022
• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.9" x 8.9"