Furious Lullaby

Oliver de la Paz, an assistant professor of English at Western Washington University, is the author of Names above Houses, published by Southern Illinois University Press, and is a recipient of a grant from the New York Foundation for the Arts. His poems have appeared in the Literary Review, Quarterly West, Third Coast, and Asian Pacific American Review, and in the anthology Tilting the Continent: Southeast Asian American Literature. He received his M.F.A. in creative writing at Arizona State University.

The poems in Furious Lullaby contain as much mischief as they do music, surprising the reader with a chorus of unexpected voices - a scapula, the dead, the Devil - and weaving those moments into a series of heartbreaking aubades that sing to the gorgeous melancholy of memory and loss. - Rigoberto Gonzalez, author of Other Fugitives and Other Strangers