The diaspora sonnets / Oliver de la Paz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

De la Paz, Oliver, 1972- author.

Contributor:

Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Filipino Americans--Poetry.

Filipino Americans.

Immigrants--Poetry.

Immigrants.

Sonnets, American.

Genre:

sonnets.

poetry.

Sonnets

Sonnets.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

112 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, N.Y. : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2023]

Summary:

"The sonnet proves formally malleable as de la Paz breaks and rejoins its tradition throughout this collection, embarking on a broader conversation about what fits and how one adapts--from the restrained use of rhyme in "Diaspora Sonnet in the Summer with the River Water Low" and carefully metered "Diaspora Sonnet Imagining My Father's Uncertainty and Nothing Else" to the hybridized "Diaspora Sonnet at the Feeders Before the Freeze." A series of "Chain Migration" poems viscerally punctuate the sonnets, giving witness to the labor and sacrifice of the immigrant experience, as do a series of hauntingly beautiful pantoums"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

The implacable west

Landscape with work, rest, and silence

Dwelling music.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

Other Format:

Ebook version :

ISBN:

9781324092988

132409298X

OCLC:

1390096137

Publisher Number:

99994920805