Orlando Ricardo Menes

Heart Fiat

Arts & Literature

““litany of sounds” will mesmerize any reader sensitive to the spiritual life or, indeed, just poetry itself. In his collection Heart Fiat, the poet has the self-confidence and the talent to surrender himself to the poem “as each line must carve itself into form”—indeed, as if the poem by its own intuition, even wisdom, had the power to find its way into sacredness. And as a result, we, the readers, experience something extraordinary as we feel the charged and indelible pressure of each word “like ink on skin, this heavy black.” In this process of intense spiritual and physical revelation, poem and prayer become gloriously indistinguishable.”