Dark sparring : poems / Selina Marsh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marsh, Selina Tusitala.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grief--Poetry.

Grief.

New Zealand--Poetry.

New Zealand.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (106 p.)

Place of Publication:

Auckland, New Zealand : Auckland University Press, 2013.

Summary:

<P style=""MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"" class=MsoNormal>Where Selina Marsh's first collection, <I>Fast Talking PI</I>, boldly, insightfully, and lyrically wrestled with the realities of being an individual of Pacific descent in a primarily European world, her latest offering fiercely combats the loss of a loved one with all of the techniques of poetry and the Thai kickboxing she practices at her disposal. The compendium brims with a fluid, humming list of poems, literary shout outs, and personal elegies, as Marsh takes readers through her mother's cancer diagnosis and the long journey as her illness

Contents:

Cover; About the author; Title page; Copyright ; Contents; Epigraph; Matariki; Part 1; Chant from Matiatia to Orapiu; Airport Road to Apia; Niu Sila Skin; Bound for Sigatoka; Checklist; All the Smallest One; Teaching Pacific Literature; Emailing Albert; Afakasi Archipelago; Fast Talking Somalis; The Best Men / Sione's Wedding; Girl from Tuvalu; Lead; Ha'akula Circle; New Zealand, The Lucky Country; Part 2; Genesis; On Plagiarism; To War with Story; A Photo Album, an Op-shop Bargain and a Grandbaby; 50 Ways to Read a Mother; Mantra; We have your mother; Blackbird; Guidelines

13 Ways of Looking at MourningPenance; Noose; Page 11; This is How we are to Love; A Formal Dinner; Signs; The Day Amy Died; Boxing; Galu Afi; Fatele; Pebble; Muay Thai on Saturdays; Master Tricks; Floating Ribs; First Spar; Kickboxing Cancer; Anniversary; Salt; Acknowledgements

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 28, 2013).

ISBN:

1-77558-540-9

OCLC:

928190442