Oliver de la Paz

Oliver de la Paz is the author of four books of poetry: Names Above Houses, Furious Lullaby, Requiem for the Orchard, and Post Subject: A Fable. He co-edited A Face to Meet the Faces: An Anthology of Contemporary Persona Poems, and co-chairs Kundiman’s advisory board. He teaches in the MFA program at Western Washington University.

The boy in the labyrinth is full of love. Full of inferences. The mysteries of the maze […]

Labyrinth 90 by Oliver de la Paz

July 14, 2014 in Poetry tagged Oliver de la Paz by Ryan Gunn

The boy in the labyrinth feels his irises widen. They have rippled into the blackest water. To […]

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July 14, 2014 in Poetry tagged Oliver de la Paz by Ryan Gunn

The boy in the labyrinth’s hand retracts from under the beast’s hot respiration. His hand, damp from […]

Labyrinth 86 by Oliver de la Paz

July 14, 2014 in Poetry tagged Oliver de la Paz by Ryan Gunn

The boy in the labyrinth is wrapped deep within the tendrils of myth. The sleeping beast’s face, […]

Labyrinth 85 by Oliver de la Paz

July 14, 2014 in Poetry tagged Oliver de la Paz by Ryan Gunn

The boy in the labyrinth wanders inside the bull’s hot breath. Each curl of mist, a blue […]

Labyrinth 91 by Oliver de la Paz

July 14, 2014 in Poetry tagged Oliver de la Paz by Ryan Gunn

The boy in the labyrinth opens one more door. One more doctored space in the space of […]

Labyrinth 84 by Oliver de la Paz

July 14, 2014 in Poetry tagged Oliver de la Paz by Ryan Gunn