The Diaspora Sonnets

"There is no container more fitting to the conveyance of the nuanced sorrow of the permanent displacement from home, a word 'ensnared with thorns,' than the sonnet, certainly as it is practiced by Oliver de la Paz, in metrical couplets, with shimmering music, 'the syllables of story, // saying then, then, then,' and a splendorous catalog of details, acutely remembered, and gilded into metaphor. ...The tenderness in these poems comes through in their 'gradations of memory where one // belonged,' and in their penetrating artfulness, itself a kind of love."
-Diane Seuss, author of frank: sonnets

About the author

Oliver de la Paz is the author and editor of seven poetry collections, including The Boy in the Labyrinth, a finalist for the Massachusetts Book Award. He teaches at the College of the Holy Cross and is the Poet Laureate of Worcester.

Summary

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY Best Books of 2023: Electric Literature Winner of the New England Book Award for Poetry For fans of Diane Seuss and Victoria Chang, a coruscating collection that eloquently invokes the perseverance and myth of the Filipino diaspora in America.

Product details

• Authors: Oliver de la Paz
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.08.2023
• EAN: 9781324092988
• ISBN: 978-1-324-09298-8
• Dimensions: 147 mm x 218 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 259 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; POETRY / General, Poetry by individual poets, Poetry / poems by individual poets