Settling St. Malo

By Randy Gonzales and Randy Gonzales

Settling St. Malo brings readers back to a time when Louisiana had the largest Filipino population in the United States--when Filipinos fished out of St. Malo, dried shrimp on Barataria Bay, and designed Mardi Gras floats in New Orleans. Poet Randy Gonzales explores the history of Louisiana's nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Filipino communities and his family's story of migration and assimilation through a blend of documentary and lyrical poetry. Settling St. Malo is a history of Filipino Louisiana in verse and an ode to the struggles of our immigrant ancestors, a collection of poems whose substance, language, and rhythms are informed by oral histories, diaries, letters, and government documents--poems infused with cultural and visual landscapes and driven by a poet's desire to account for a lost heritage.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1959569031
• ISBN13: 9781959569039
• Release Date: September 2023
• Publisher: Univ of Louisiana at Lafayette
• Length: 119 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.9" x 8.9"