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In Names above Houses, Oliver de la Pazuses 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, 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.
- Sales Rank: #3028636 in eBooks
- Published on: 2001-04-11
- Released on: 2001-04-11
- Format: Kindle eBook
Review
“Oliver de la Paz has created a unique work: a novella in the form of a sequence of prose poems; a lucidly inventive allegory of migration, exile, and belonging. With grace and elegance, he evokes the magical, myth-making culture of his Philippines and brings it to a very real California in the person of Fidelito, a boy who wants to fly, and his parents, Domingo and Maria Elena. Oliver de la Paz has the strength and wisdom to step lightly with the heaviest burdens. He is stunningly good. Names above Houses celebrates the trials and indestructibility of a family and is a durable refreshment, an essential document of life at the cultural crossroads.”—Rodney Jones, author of Elegy for the Southern Drawl
“Oliver de la Paz creates the legend of Fidelito—a boy whose yearning to fly becomes a metaphor for immigration, sexual awakening, religious passion, and the imagination of a poet-in-the-making. As Fidelito's family trades Filipino omens of baby teeth and rats for those of the ‘moonlike glow’ of American television romances and San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge, de la Paz's deft storytelling—part magic realism, part Aesop fable—seamlessly pulls us from one adventure to the next. Through Fidelito, de la Paz weaves the odysseys of Jesus and Icarus into a lush and wonderful wanderlust.”—Denise Duhamel, author of The Star-Spangled Banner
“Names above Houses points to a new direction in Asian American poetry in which the creative genius of Oliver de la Paz hangs in the sky as luminous neon verse. He takes the urbane colors of John Berryman and mixes them with the sensuous hues of Arthur Sze. This is a book enriched with unexpected shifts of language, vertical and horizontal perspectives, and a full spectrum of emotion and insight.”—Nick Carbó, author of Secret Asian Man
From the Publisher
Rodney Jones, final judge of the 2000 Crab Orchard Award Series in Poetry, writes of his selection of NAMES ABOVE HOUSES: “Oliver de la Paz has created a unique work: a novella in the form of a sequence of prose poems; a lucidly inventive allegory of migration, exile, and belonging. With grace and elegance, he evokes the magical, myth-making culture of his Philippines and brings it to a very real California in the person of Fidelito, a boy who wants to fly, and his parents, Domingo and Maria Elena. Oliver de la Paz has the strength and wisdom to step lightly with the heaviest burdens. He is stunningly good. NAMES ABOVE HOUSES celebrates the trials and indestructibility of a family and is a durable refreshment, an essential document of life at the cultural crossroads.”
From the Inside Flap
“NAMES ABOVE HOUSES points to a new direction in Asian American poetry in which the creative genius of Oliver de la Paz hangs in the sky as luminous neon verse. He take the urbane colors of John Berryman and mixes them with the sensuous hues of Arthur Sze. This is a book enriched with unexpected shifts of language, vertical and horizontal perspectives, and a full spectrum of emotion and insight.”
--Nick Carbo, author of SECRET ASIAN MAN
“Oliver de la Paz creates the legend of Fidelito--a boy whose yearning to fly becomes a metaphor for immigration, sexual awakening, religious passion, and the imagination of a poet-in-the making. As Fidelito’s family trades Filipino omens of baby teeth and rats for those of the ‘moonlike glow’ of American television romances and San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge, de la Paz’s deft storytelling--part magic realism, part Aesop fable--seamlessly pulls us from one adventure to the next. Through Fidelito, de la Paz weaves the odysseys of Jesus and Icarus into a lush and wonderful wanderlust.”
--Denise Duhamel, author of THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER
Most helpful customer reviews
4 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
flight, compelling and graceful
By A Customer
like the sages of old who looked to the clouds for direction and insight, so too does de la paz turn his attention skyward in this beautiful collection of prose poems. this book is the story of fidelito, young filipino who flies over the ocean to arrive in the united states--but his journey is universal, speaking to the immigrant's struggle of leaving the beloved homeland and persevering in a new one. flight as metaphor is skillfully handled by this poet who elevates bird imagery beyond fantasy and fancy and into the complex levels of transcendence and acculturation. very few poetry books can be read as a poem-by-poem narrative--i can think of only rita dove's "thomas and beulah" in which each poem is also an individual testament to the power of the word and the craft of the wordsmith. a stunning debut.
also recommend: eugene gloria's "drivers at the short time motel"
7 of 9 people found the following review helpful.
A Poetic Debut that Doesn't Disappoint!
By eduardo C. corral
Oliver De La Paz's prose poems are beautiful. There are lines in here that stop you cold: The harbor lights close like a sequined hand; she blesses the room with her blue arcs. The prose poems are a narrative, the poems have the shape and allure of photographs in a family album, of a boy who flys and of his family. I love the fact that the prose poems "hover" at the top of the page, echoing the desire of the boy to soar.
With this book, I have no desire to display any critical/theory skills. Let others do that. I want to remember the pleasue this book brought me: turning to the next page; highlighting specific lines; bending back the covers; calling my friends to read them a poem. This is a gift I rarely recieve.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
A must read!
By A Customer
All I can say is WOW. I went to hear Oliver de la Paz read from his book . . . he's an incredible reader. What's surprising about the book is how tight the prose poems are in their craft and language. There's a tragic whimsy in the poems--I laughed aloud at times, but often wondered at what cost was my laughter? This book has something important to say about the immigrant experience without the message being preachy. You've got to get this book, teach this book, walk the streets with this book under your arm.
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