LEADER 02697nam 2200469 450 001 9910790853703321 005 20230803022540.0 010 $a1-77558-540-9 035 $a(CKB)2550000001165821 035 $a(EBL)1563959 035 $a(OCoLC)928190442 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1563959 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1563959 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10812429 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001165821 100 $a20111102d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aDark sparring $epoems /$fSelina Marsh 210 1$aAuckland, New Zealand :$cAuckland University Press,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (106 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-86940-786-5 311 $a1-306-16033-2 327 $aCover; 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 327 $a13 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 330 $a

Where Selina Marsh's first collection, Fast Talking PI, 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 606 $aGrief$vPoetry 607 $aNew Zealand$vPoetry 615 0$aGrief 676 $a811.54 700 $aMarsh$b Selina Tusitala$01464646 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910790853703321 996 $aDark sparring$93674404 997 $aUNINA