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Iep Jaltok - Poems from a Marshallese Daughter (Paperback)
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Iep Jaltok - Poems from a Marshallese Daughter (Paperback)
Series: Sun Tracks
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List price R445
Loot Price R370
Discovery Miles 3 700
You Save R75 (17%)
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As the seas rise, the fight intensifies to save the Pacific Ocean's
Marshall Islands from being devoured by the waters around them. At
the same time, activists are raising their poetic voices against
decades of colonialism, environmental destruction, and social
injustice. Marshallese poet and activist Kathy Jetn-il-Kijiner's
writing highlights the traumas of colonialism, racism, forced
migration, the legacy of American nuclear testing, and the
impending threats of climate change. Bearing witness at the front
lines of various activist movements inspires her work and has
propelled her poetry onto international stages, where she has
performed in front of audiences ranging from elementary school
students to more than a hundred world leaders at the United Nations
Climate Summit. The poet connects us to Marshallese daily life and
tradition, likening her poetry to a basket and its essential
materials. Her cultural roots and her family provides the thick
fiber, the structure of the basket. Her diasporic upbringing is the
material which wraps around the fiber, an essential layer to the
structure of her experiences. And her passion for justice and
change, the passion which brings her to the front lines of activist
movements-is the stitching that binds these two experiences
together. Iep Jaltok will make history as the first published book
of poetry written by a Marshallese author, and it ushers in an
important new voice for justice.
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