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Fast Talking Pi (Paperback)
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Fast Talking Pi (Paperback)
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Loot Price R532
Discovery Miles 5 320
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Fast Talking PI is the first 'singular, confident and musical'
collection of poetry by Auckland writer Selina Tusitala Marsh.
'Tusitala' means writer of tales in Samoan, and Marsh here lives up
to her name with stories of her life, her family, community,
ancestry, and history. Her poetry is sensuous and strong, using
lush imagery, clear rhythms and repetitions to power it forward.
The list poem is a favourite style, but she also writes with a
Pacific lyricism entirely her own. Fast Talking PI is structured in
three sections, 'Tusitala (personal), 'Talkback' (political and
historical) and 'Fast Talking PI' (already a classic). In poems
like 'Guys Like Gauguin' she writes as a 'calabash breaker',
fighting back against historic injustices; but in other poems she
explores the idea of the calabash as the honoured vessel for
identity and story. Ultimately, though, Marsh exhorts herself to
'be nobody's darling', as a writer she is a self-proclaimed
'darling in the margins', and Fast Talking PI proves it - a
generous work that will thrill readers; 'a map in our arms / to get
us over the reef'; and a tremendous first book.
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