Names above houses
In Names above Houses, Oliver de la Paz uses both prose and verse poems to create the magical realm of Fidelito Recto-a boy who wants to fly-and his family of Filipino immigrants. Fidelito's mother, Maria Elena, tries to keep her son grounded while struggling with her own moorings. Meanwhile, D...
| Основен автор: | De la Paz, Oliver, 1972- |
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| Формат: | Електронен |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Carbondale :
Crab Orchard Review : Southern Illinois University Press,
℗♭2001.
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| Серия: |
Crab Orchard award series in poetry.
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Names above houses. |
Съдържание:
- In the Year of the Rat
- The Romance of Bait
- At Sea Domingo Learned to Steady His Hand
- Insects in Maria Elena's Kitchen
- The Flood of Ants
- A Parable
- Before Takeoff, Fidelito Prays
- Fidelito Sails over Manila
- On His First Flight Over
- Fidelito Haunts Airports
- On the Downward Escalator
- Manong Jose, While Cleaning His Last Window Before Coffee, Sees Fidelito and Is Pleased Though Wary
- Fidelito Prays to the Wind, Asking for Advice, but Not Really Asking
- School Years
- When Fidelito Is the New Boy at School
- Why Maria Elena Calls the Boy's Name So Many Times in a Day
- Fidelito Takes Flight up a Ladder
- For Hours, Fidelito Hangs from the Topmost Branch Before Letting Go
- She Leaves the Water Running
- Fidelito Suddenly Becomes Afraid of Heights
- From the Ocean, Fidelito Pulls
- The Fisherman's Chronicle
- Grounding
- In Sleep He Practices Flying
- Three Madonnas
- The Fourth Madonna
- Carpenter Ants
- From a Country with One Million Maria
- A Cupboard Full of Halos
- Fidelito Dreams the Village
- Domingo, Too Old for Fishing
- The Romance of the Television
- When Fidelito Says He'll Fly Away
- Domingo's Advice for Fidelito
- Nine Secrets the Recto Family Can't Tell the Boy
- Origami Dove
- Manong Jose Remembers Fidelito's First Fall
- Fidelito Contemplates How Powerful He Has Become and Thinks of Ways to Alter Weather Patterns
- Mind-Swimming
- After the Boy Goes to Bed
- Domingo's Blood Clot
- The Romance of the Amputated Leg
- How Domingo Disappears.