A Little Travel Story

Poetry. David Oliveira's new book shows his stunning narrative breadth and intelligence. Oliveira, whose mentor was Philip Levine at Cal-State Fresno, is a former poet laureate of Santa Barbara now living and teaching in Cambodia. The final poem in this collection is a long tapestry which begins "under the Mekong sky" and illustrates the gorgeous loops of journey. Christopher Buckley describes A LITTLE TRAVEL STORY this way: "poems with such a keen sense of humor...accurate in irony and political content...[t]his is work of an accomplished and gifted craftsman".