Dark sparring : poems / / Selina Marsh

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910790853703321
• Autore: Marsh Selina Tusitala
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Auckland, New Zealand : , : Auckland University Press, , 2013
• ISBN: 1-77558-540-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (106 p.)
• Disciplina: 811.54
• Soggetti: Grief; New Zealand Poetry
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: <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