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Their backs to the sea : poems and photographs / by Margaret Randall.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Randall, Margaret, 1936-
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (114 p. ) ill. ;
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Their Backs to the Sea
- Place of Publication:
- San Antonio, Tex. : Wings Press ; [Chicago] : Distributed by the Independent Publishers Group, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Detailing the natural and human history of Rapa Nuimore commonly known as Easter Islandthis extraordinary collection of poems and photographs links together the ancient inhabitants of the most isolated, inhabited spot on earth with common concerns and hopes of the present. Illustrating the unique culture and ongoing struggle to survive against dramatic odds, this volume dramatically depicts the basic desires, misgivings, and challenges that human beings have long faced, regardless of time and place.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Ahu Tongariki, as seen from the sea
- Easter Island, Rapa Nui, or simply the land
- Land and Seascape
- Hare Paenga Foundation
- Lone Pukau
- Island Without a Name
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- V
- VI
- VII
- VIII
- IX
- X
- XI
- XII
- XIII
- XIV
- XV
- XVI
- Ahu Tongariki, closeup of two Moai
- Palm leaf
- Banana leaf
- Fallen Moai at Ahu Akahanga
- Moai fallen face down
- Birdman house at Orongo
- Bermed roofs of Birdman houses at Orongo
- Moai inside Rano Raraku crater
- Moai on outer flank of Rano Raraku
- Pulling the Island Behind
- Falling Moai on outer flank of Rano Raraku
- Left Handed
- Migration
- Ahu Tehai
- Makemake petroglyphs at Orongo
- Ahu Akapu
- Inhabitants
- Accidental. Misplaced.
- Matriarch Now
- Remembered Lives
- How to Believe
- Storyline
- Feet Still Run
- Surprising Burma
- Calamity or Stagecraft
- Corn
- You Get to Choose Now
- Whole Silence
- Always There Is a Place
- The Art of Our Love
- The A Word
- Singular Shadow Rock
- Disappearing Beauty
- A Word Breaks
- Relativity
- In Quick Succession
- Between the Old Year and New
- Moon Colony
- More Sugar?
- Seven Words
- Imagine a Body
- Midday Recognition
- Connective Tissue
- Call and Response
- Necklace of Days
- What I Tell the Young When They Ask
- Ahu Tongariki seen from the lip of Rano Raraku crater
- Ahu Tongariki
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- About the Cover Artist
- Critical Praise for Their Backs to the Sea
- Back Cover.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-60940-074-7
- OCLC:
- 670429630
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