Tightrope / Selina Tusitala Marsh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marsh, Selina Tusitala, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

New Zealand poetry--21st century.

New Zealand poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (112 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Auckland, New Zealand : Auckland University Press, 2017.

Summary:

"We are what we remember, the self is a trick of memory... history is the remembered tightrope that stretches across the abyss of all that we have forgotten" -Maualaivao Albert Wendt Built around the abyss, the tightrope, and the trick that we all have to perform to walk across it, Pasifika poetry warrior Selina Tusitala Marsh brings to life in Tightrope her ongoing dialogue with memory, life and death to find out whether ‘stories' really can ‘cure the incurable'. In Marsh's poetry, sharp intelligence combines a focused warrior fierceness with perceptive humour and energy, upheld by the mana of the Pacific. She mines rich veins – the tradition and culture of her whanau and Pacific nations; the works of feminist poets and leaders; words of distinguished poets Derek Walcott and Albert Wendt – to probe the particularities of words and cultures. Selina Tusitala Marsh's Tightrope takes us from the bustle of the world's largest Polynesian city, Auckland, through Avondale and Apia, and on to London and New York on an extraordinary poetic voyage.

Contents:

Cover

Title page

Imprint

Dedication

Contents

Epigraph

I abyss

The Dogs of Talimatau

Apostles

Alice's Chickens

Led by Line

The Blacking Out of Pouliuli (1977)

Tantrum Tightrope

Kiwitea Street in the '80s

Le Coup

The dark ground

gafatele

Siren

Discover the question

Explanation of Poetry to My Immigrant Mother

II tightrope

Unity

!

Pussy Cat

Queens I have met

Out of one mountain

Dinner with the King

Whispers and Vanities

Burning hands

Inwood Hill, New York

Before making war

Insurance Broker-Turned-Counsellor-Playwright, Rumba Café

When others glare

Subway Lingo from 190th to 42nd Street

Sicilian-Hungarian-Jersey-born Tape-Artist, Union City

The New York Times, April 21 2015

The story began

Eviction Notice 113

Essential Oils for the Dying

Bread Bags

Atoll Haiku Chain

Alofa the only

Nadadola Road

Apia Seawall

The genesis of the world

Path

III trick

Believe in the plot

The Working Mother's Guide to Reading Seventy Books a Year

Be afraid of nothing

Like the Time You Were Four

Orange Crayon Stick Figure Man

Marriage

Belief in Jack Kerouac

Lies sometimes

Red Comb

Black White Desiring

In Creative Writing Class

Warrior Poetry

Never wound

Ka'ena, Leaping Point

Notes.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781775589501

1775589501

9781775589518

177558951X