Voice carried my family / Robert Sullivan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sullivan, Robert, 1967-

Language:

English

Physical Description:

66 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Auckland, N.Z. : Auckland University Press, 2005.

Summary:

Love and the rearticulation of New Zealand mythology from a Polynesian perspective are the central themes of this new collection of Hawaii-based Maori poetry. The poems open up two cultural traditions-a Polynesian oral tradition and a written European tradition-with subjects that range from ancient myths to the complexity and moral ambiguity of the modern world. Poetry lovers will find pleasure in the poems' conceptual energy, constantly yielding surprises and unexpected and imaginative angles.

Contents:

I For Gods and Waka

Chant Waka 2

Bird Waka 3

Wakas 4

London Waka 6

Tane retrieves the baskets of knowledge 8

Gods and Oysters 10

Voice carried my family, their names and stories 11

A Biography 12

Te ao hurihuri 14

South Point, Hawai'i 15

II For Shadows

13 ways of looking at a blackbirder 18

Omanaia 21

Resolving the shadows of home 23

III For the Ocean of Kiwa

1 The Great Hall 26

2 Tupaia 27

3 Mai 28

4 Queen Charlotte Sound 29

5 New Information 30

6 Bubbling ground 31

7 The Wide Shot 32

8 A Resolution 33

9 I/Eyes/Ae 34

10 The Northeast Passage Home 35

11 Ocean Birth 36

12 Rapanui Easter Island 38

13 I see red, I see red, I see red 39

14 Pearl Harbor 40

15 Captain Cook 41

16 Mind the gap 42

17 It's all been done before, eh 43

IV For Fires

Song 46

Boyle Abbey 47

Heart Wounds 48

Take 49

Kowhaiwhai 50

Love Poem 52

close to you 53

mother and child 54

stepping stones 55

the view from my office 56

purgatory 57

Ahi Ka - The House of Nga Puhi 58

the crackling page 60

Poems from Another Century, for Parihaka 61

our country 65.

ISBN:

1869403371

OCLC:

62110234