02730nam 2200481 450 991045350040332120200520144314.01-77558-540-9(CKB)2550000001165821(EBL)1563959(OCoLC)928190442(MiAaPQ)EBC1563959(Au-PeEL)EBL1563959(CaPaEBR)ebr10812429(EXLCZ)99255000000116582120111102d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierDark sparring poems /Selina MarshAuckland, New Zealand :Auckland University Press,2013.1 online resource (106 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-86940-786-5 1-306-16033-2 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; Guidelines13 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<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 GriefPoetryNew ZealandPoetryElectronic books.Grief811.54Marsh Selina Tusitala890335MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910453500403321Dark sparring1988924UNINA