In this third episode in our series on the pantoum, we read and discuss Oliver de la Paz's "Pantoum Beginning and Ending with Thorns," a poem that draws its inspiration from a visual art object as well as the story of migration that shapes the poetic speaker's lived experience.
To learn more about Oliver de la Paz, visit his website (https://www.oliverdelapaz.com/).
If you love this poem as much as we do, please purchase a copy of The Diaspora Sonnets (https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324092988) (Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2023), which was long-listed for the 2023 National Book Award in Poetry and a finalist for the 2024 Paterson Poetry Prize. Thanks to Liveright and W. W. Norton for granting us permission to read this poem.
