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  • Furious Lullaby (Crab Orchard Series in Poetry)
    Furious Lullaby (Crab Orchard Series in Poetry)
  • Names Above Houses (Crab Orchard Series in Poetry)
    Names Above Houses (Crab Orchard Series in Poetry)
  • A Face to Meet the Faces: An Anthology of Contemporary Persona Poetry
    A Face to Meet the Faces: An Anthology of Contemporary Persona Poetry

  • Requiem for the Orchard (Akron Series in Poetry)
    Requiem for the Orchard (Akron Series in Poetry)

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Oliver's work can also be found in the following anthologies.

  • Tilting the Continent: Southeast Asian American Writing
    Tilting the Continent: Southeast Asian American Writing
  • Asian American Poetry: The Next Generation
    Asian American Poetry: The Next Generation
  • Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond
    Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond
  • From the Fishouse: An Anthology of Poems that Sing, Rhyme, Resound, Syncopate, Alliterate, and Just Plain Sound Great
    From the Fishouse: An Anthology of Poems that Sing, Rhyme, Resound, Syncopate, Alliterate, and Just Plain Sound Great
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Oliver de la Paz’s Requiem for the Orchard is a love letter to memory and its ability to both sustain and shatter us beyond the “dust of ourselves,/ cold, decisive, and purely from the earth.” de la Paz renders in beautiful and exacting language the tenderness and ferocity of boyhood, alongside the enduring vulnerability of parenthood.  Out of such intimate recollection a generous wisdom blossoms.   

—Jon Pineda, author of
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Quick Bit

DateTuesday, July 27, 2010 at 1:43PM

My class is coming up, so just a quick note:


Meredith and I are trying to get the toddler to sleep in his own bed. The evening was quite comical, involving craning my neck to listen closely through the static of a baby monitor, running into said toddler in the middle of the night wandering the hallways, sleeping in a tiny bed, sleeping on the floor, sleeping on the floor holding the toddler's hands, holding the three-month-old while Meredith put the toddler to bed . . .

Parents, don't co-sleep. Ever.

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I am tired and delirious.

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AuthorOliver | Comment1 Comment |

Reader Comments (1)

We co-slept with both of our kids until about age 2. Not easy, but once it's done it's done. Try breaking the sleep pattern over a weekend.
July 28, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterJanuary

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