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Arizona State University. Loyola Marymount University.
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Furious Lullaby (Crab Orchard Series in Poetry)
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Names Above Houses (Crab Orchard Award Series in Poetry)
( In Names above Houses, Oliver de la Paz uses both prose...)
In Names above Houses, Oliver de la Paz uses both prose and verse poems to create the magical realm of Fidelito Rectoa boy who wants to flyand his family of Filipino immigrants. Fidelito’s mother, Maria Elena, tries to keep her son grounded while struggling with her own moorings. Meanwhile, Domingo, Fidelito's fisherman father, is always at sea, even when among them. From the archipelago of the Philippines to San Francisco, horizontal and vertical movements shape moments of displacement and belonging for this marginalized family. Fidelito approaches life with a sense of wonder, finding magic in the mundane and becoming increasingly uncertain whether he is in the sky or whether his feet are planted firmly on the ground.
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Furious Lullaby (Crab Orchard Series in Poetry) Paperback September 25, 2007
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Requiem for the Orchard (Akron Series in Poetry (Paperback))
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These are vivid, visceral poems about coming of age in a place 'where the Ferris Wheel / was the tallest thing in the valley,' where a boy would learn 'to fire a shotgun at nine and wring a chicken's neck / with one hand by twirling the bird and whipping it straight like a towel.' . . . In spite of such hardscrabble cruelties”or because of them”there is also a real tenderness in these poems, the revelations of bliss driving along an empty highway 'like opening a heavy book, / letting the pages feather themselves and finding a dried flower.' . . . The poet has a gift for rendering his world in cinematic images. . . . In short, these poems are the stuff of life itself, ugly and beautiful, wherever or whenever we happen to live it. ”Martin Espada
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Furious Lullaby (Crab Orchard Series in Poetry)
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Furious Lullaby is both a celebration of and a eulogy to the body in the twenty-first century. The collection, which examines the larger concepts of salvation and temptation in a world of blossoming strife, includes a series of aubades dramatic poems culminating with the separation of lovers at dawn. The lovers suffer a metaphysical crisis, seeking to know what is good, what is evil, and how to truly know the difference. Knowing, however, invites the terrible into their world. The Devil, a seductive trickster, haunts the landscape as a voice who dares each inquisitor to learn about mortality, morality, the beautiful, and the unspeakable through direct experience. Furious Lullaby offers a departure from the lighter prose poetry of de la Paz’s Names above Houses and preserves the author’s concern with the nature of human grace.
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Requiem for the Orchard REQUIEM FOR THE ORCHARD BY de La Paz, Oliver ( Author ) Mar-01-2010 REQUIEM FOR THE ORCHARD REQUIEM FOR THE ORCHARD BY DE LA PAZ, OLIVER ( AUTHOR ) MAR-01-2010 By de La Paz, Oliver ( Author )Mar-01-2010 Paperback
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Furious Lullaby (By: Oliver de La Paz) published: October, 2007
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Oliver Paz
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His honors include a 2005 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship Award and a 2009 GAP Grant from Artist Trust. His work has appeared in literary journals and magazines including Virginia Quarterly Review, North American Review, Tin House, Chattahoochee Review, and in anthologies such as Asian American Poetry: The Next Generation (University of Illinois Press, 2004). de la Paz was born in Manila, Philippines and raised in Ontario, Oregon. He earned a Bachelor of Surgery in Biology and a Bachelor of Arts in English from Loyola Marymount University, and an Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Arizona State University.
He teaches at Western Washington University, and co-chairs the advisory board of Kundiman (nonprofit organization), a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the promotion of Asian American Poetry.
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Requiem for the Orchard (Akron Series in Poetry (Paperback))
(These are vivid, visceral poems about coming of age in a ...)
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Names Above Houses (Crab Orchard Award Series in Poetry)
( In Names above Houses, Oliver de la Paz uses both prose...)
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Furious Lullaby (Crab Orchard Series in Poetry)
( Furious Lullaby is both a celebration of and a eulogy t...)
- Furious Lullaby (Crab Orchard Series in Poetry)
- Furious Lullaby (Crab Orchard Series in Poetry) Paperback September 25, 2007
- Requiem for the Orchard REQUIEM FOR THE ORCHARD BY de La Paz, Oliver ( Author ) Mar-01-2010 REQUIEM FOR THE ORCHARD REQUIEM FOR THE ORCHARD BY DE LA PAZ, OLIVER ( AUTHOR ) MAR-01-2010 By de La Paz, Oliver ( Author )Mar-01-2010 Paperback
- Furious Lullaby (By: Oliver de La Paz) published: October, 2007
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Requiem for the Orchard (Akron Series in Poetry (Paperback))
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