02933nam 2200481 450 991078774570332120230617020501.01-77558-684-71-77558-230-21-86940-634-6(CKB)2670000000492037(EBL)1411895(MiAaPQ)EBC1557375(MiAaPQ)EBC1411895(Au-PeEL)EBL1411895(OCoLC)865330020(EXLCZ)99267000000049203720170301h20052005 uy 0engur|n|---|||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierVoice carried my family /Robert SullivanAuckland, [New Zealand] :Auckland University Press,2005.©20051 online resource (99 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-86940-337-1 Cover; Title Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; I : For Gods and Waka; Chant Waka; Bird Waka; Wakas; London Waka; Tāne retrieves the baskets of knowledge; Gods and Oysters; Voice carried my family, their names and stories; A Biography; Te ao hurihuri; South Point, Hawai'i; II : For Shadows; 13 ways of looking at a blackbirder; Omanaia; Resolving the shadows of home; III : For the Ocean of Kiwa; 1 The Great Hall; 2 Tupaia; 3 Mai; 4 Queen Charlotte Sound; 5 New Information; 6 Bubbling ground; 7 The Wide Shot; 8 A Resolution; 9 I / Eyes / Ae; 10 The Northeast Passage Home; 11 Ocean Birth12 Rapanui Easter Island13 I see red, I see red, I see red; 14 Pearl Harbor; 15 Captain Cook; 16 mind the gap; 17 it's all been done before, eh; IV : For Fires; Song; Boyle Abbey; Heart Wounds; Take; Kowhaiwhai; Love Poem; close to you; mother and child; stepping stones; the view from my office; purgatory; Ahi Kā - The House of Ngā Puhi; the crackling page; Poems from Another Century, for Parihaka; our country; Notes; Also by Robert Sullivan; CopyrightVoice Carried My Family is a stunning collection by Robert Sullivan. It contains strong, pervasive themes such as the rewriting of New Zealand myths from a Polynesian perspective; there are also a number of beautiful love poems. The power of the spoken word has particular meaning for an inheritor of an oral tradition and Sullivan sees himself continuing in his poetry a long line of storytellers, wits, singers. Deeply moved by his ancestors Sullivan yet engages directly and unsentimentally with the modern world, its complexity and moral ambiguity. Similarly his formal techniques borrow fNew Zealand poetry21st centuryNew Zealand poetry821Orr Bob1508038MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910787745703321Voice carried my family3739215UNINA