| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 78 pages) |
| Series |
Crab Orchard award series in poetry |
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Crab Orchard award series in poetry.
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| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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, 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 sen |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Filipino Americans -- Poetry
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Boys -- Poetry
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POETRY -- American -- General.
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Boys
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Filipino Americans
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Philippines -- Poetry
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Philippines
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| Genre/Form |
Poetry
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780809390205 |
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0809390205 |
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1299050689 |
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9781299050686 |
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