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The Diaspora Sonnets

By Oliver de la Paz
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By Oliver de la Paz
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LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY

Best Books of 2023: Electric Literature

Winner of the New England Book Award for Poetry


For fans of Diane Seuss and Victoria Chang, a coruscating collection that eloquently invokes the perseverance and myth of the Filipino diaspora in America.

In 1972, after Ferdinand Marcos declared martial law, Oliver de la Paz's father, in a last fit of desperation to leave the Philippines, threw his papers at an immigration clerk, hoping to get them st...

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PoetryAmerican PoetryAsian American Poetry21st Century American PoetryAmerican poetry->Filipino American authorsAmerican poetry->21st century