Written originally in Me'phaa, First Rain is a selection of poems
that emerged from the poet responding to the death of his
grandmother who declared to him in 2005: I will die in the days
when the first rains come. The work mourns both the loss of a
grandmother, and the fading away (like her sight in later life) of
a culture and language that hold so much history and pride. In this
way, they address social, racial and gender inequalities,
environmental abuses and injustices faced by native peoples in
Latin America - issues that have resonance globally. As the poet
recounts: In the face of the wind, grab the stones that are falling
upon us, one of his grandmother's phrases, refers to people
standing up to injustice. This collection, Hubert Matiuwaa's first
ever in English, is a gathering of stones.
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