Description:
An award-winning poet chronicles loss, family, and identity
Brief description: Oliver de la Paz is the author of four collections of poetry: Names Above Houses, Furious Lullaby, Requiem for the Orchard, and Post Subject: A Fable. He is the co-editor of A Face to Meet the Faces: An Anthology of Contemporary Persona Poetry and co-chair of the Kundiman advisory board.
Review Quotes:
In the foreword, Oliver de la Paz calls the poems breathless ribbons of prose verse - and it's true, the way all these poems seem to be contained within one breath, narrow and taut, but what's also true is the way each of them renders you breathless with their acute knowledge of both pain and joy, suffering and salve. They knock the wind out of you, with the precision of each line, muted and raw, landing like the punch that will win the match.
-- "Fjords Review"