02697nam 2200469 450 991079085370332120230803022540.01-77558-540-9(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 ZealandPoetryGrief811.54Marsh Selina Tusitala1464646MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910790853703321Dark sparring3674404UNINA