Night is a sharkskin drum / by Haunani-Kay Trask.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Trask, Haunani-Kay, author.

Series:

Australasian literature: Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands (text)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hawaii--Poetry.

Hawaii.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 70 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Honolulu, HI : University of Hawaii Press, 2002.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

data file

Summary:

Night Is a Sharkskin Drum is a lyrical evocation of Hawaii by a Native poet whose ancestral land has been scarred by tourism, the American military, and urbanization. Grounded in the ancient grandeur and beauty of Hawaii, this collection is a haunted and haunting love song for a beloved homeland under assault.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Part 1 Born in Fire

Born in Fire

Who Would Find the Midnight Rainbow

Night Is a Sharkskin Drum

Hi'iaka Chanting

Namakaokaha'i

Part 2 A Fragrance of Devouring

The Broken Gourd

Ruins

The Flute of the 'Ohe

Kona Kai'opua

Lahaina, 1995

Tourist

Nostalgia: VJ-Day

Smiling Corpses

Sovereignty

Puowaina: Flag Day

Na 'Oiwi

At Punalu'u

Dispossessions of Empire

Part 3 Chants of Dawn

Still Is the Fern

To Hear the Mornings

Returning

"Shipwrecked on the Shallows of the Stars"

From Ka'a'awa to Rarotonga

Afternoons

Where Is the Elegant Light

Upon the Dark of Passion

Where the Fern Clings

To Write by Moonlight

The Shallows

The Mist of My Heart

He'eia Uli

Run into the Sea

Sweeten the Mango

Open Your Weariness

Before Dawn Leaves Forever

Together

Into Our Light I Will Go Forever

Glossary.

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed September 21, 2015).

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Aug 2019)

ISBN:

9780824846374

0824846370

OCLC:

606870157