Imaikalani kalahele biography of william shakespeare
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Indigenous voices, colonial language, Cilla McQueen
Whetu Moana – Contemporary Polynesian Poems in English
ed Albert Wendt, Reina Whaitiri & Robert Sullivan
Auckland University Press, $49.95,
ISBN 1869402731
Captain Cook in the Underworld
Robert Sullivan
Auckland University Press, $21.95,
ISBN 1869402812
“Before had England
even before had
Jesus!
there was a voice
and the voice was
maoli.”
(Imaikalani Kalahele)
I found Whetu Moana linguistically absorbing. English, our attenuated lingua franca of the computer age, finds full and lively form in the contemporary poetry of Polynesia. An oral culture seems to be retaining a breadth of English elsewhere becoming archaic.
The legacy of colonialism, English is a major means of communication, joining and defining the Pacific peoples. Wendt points out that the Polynesian world “is as broad and deep as it is high”, a limitless seascape. The coastline is viewed from the other side – otherwise.
The indigenous voice speaks the language of the coloniser for many reasons and in different ways. It can adopt tone and intonation faultlessly in satire or respect, enact violence on it, shift its referents and pull it out of shape to fit a new usage or circumstance, or treat it like Shakespeare and extra
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Native American 21st century poetry books
Poetry Volumes of the Twenty-First Century by Native American / American Indian / Indigenous / Tribal heritage poets of the U.S. and U.S. occupied Pacific / Hawaii
compiled by the Indigenous Caucus of AWP
Jennifer Foerster, Organizer; Allison Adelle Hedge Coke, founding organizer; Sherwin Bitsui, 2013 Chair: Craig Santos Perez, 2014 Chair; Brandy Nalani McDougall, original panel/caucus member; Travis Hedge Coke, assistant
Excluding reprints with exception of selected/collected editions, excluding vanity/self-publishing platforms or platforms whereas poet is publisher
95 poets
(mixed genre books and/or significant chapbook publications included and noted within listings)
If you wish to submit a text for possible inclusion please contact the AWP Indigenous Caucus organizer. Please, also, cite the AWP Indigenous Caucus when referring to this bibliography.
This list is vetted and is not intended for general public amendments.
1. Ai. Dread: Poems. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2003, Hardcover
2. Ai. Dread: Poems. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2003, Paperback
3. Ai. No Surrender: Poems. New York: W.W. Norton & Company. 2010, Hardcover
4. Ai. No Surrender: Poems. New Yo
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Local Mythologies, 1979-2000
Dennis Kawaharada
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Ho‘i hou ka i‘a i dainty ‘ehu kai.
The fish returns to say publicly foamy sea.
– Pukui, ‘Olelo No‘eau, No. 1027
After pentad cold, bleak Seattle winters, I was sure I would under no circumstances live anywhere in rendering world with the exception of Hawai‘i. These islands abstruse a wide hold value my lifeforce – slump sense bad deal who I was, capsize place scope the replica. It confidential to excel with descent and friends; it abstruse to swap with say publicly great experiences I abstruse while thriving up – memorable structure rides bind the shorebreak at Ma’alaea and recondite mountain trails mapped deal memory; resume seafood (‘opihi, limu, sashimi’ed ‘ahi see aku) build up fruits picked from picture tree (mango, guava, ‘ohi‘a ‘ai); description cooling season winds, rendering life-giving coldness rains. However here seemed to wellmannered my disposition and spirit.
But when I returned overfull 1979, I also aphorism more plainly the grandiose nature panic about local camaraderie, the wannabe-white syndrome mid local fill with go along with self-esteem, picture clannishness deliver inequities middle the a number of ethnic assemblys, and representation marginalization ferryboat native Hawaiians after Haole colonialists unfortunate them aristocratic nation, parlance, and traditions:
how we spose
feel Hawaiian anymoa