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Poukahangatus - Poems
Tayi Tibble
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R407
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Rangikura (Paperback)
Tayi Tibble
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R263
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I am made in the image of my mother ... I am made in the image of /
my mountain / my river / my whenua In Rangikura, plastic tiaras
melt into boiling rivers, and family memories blur with ancestral
mythologies. Satanic stepbrothers play jenga while the deity
Mahuika burns - and the temperature is rising. Here, anger and
loss, history and pop culture are spun into verses woven with
vernacular and Te Reo Maori. At the collection's centre, our
protagonist whirls through a love/hate story for the internet age,
facing the sting of unanswered texts and unmet expectations with
wit, sensibility and devastating glamour. Rangikura is the
captivating second collection from award-winning poet Tayi Tibble.
From feminism to colonialism, skuxes to daddies, wild swimming to
schoolboy hakas, these poems at once mark the end of the world and
the dawn of a new day. Poignant, hilarious and liberatory,
Rangikura reminds us that the personal is sometimes political, the
political is always personal, and poetry can be revolutionary.
'Moving and hopeful ... will stay with me for a long time' Daisy
Buchanan 'A fearless, young new voice' Carol Ann Duffy 'One of the
most exciting debuts I've read in ages' Kaveh Akbar 'One of the
most startling and original poets of her generation' Joy Harjo The
voice of Tayi Tibble is one of most exciting in poetry today. In
Poukahangatus (pronounced 'Pocahontas'), her debut volume, Tibble
challenges a dazzling array of mythologies - Greek, Maori,
feminist, kiwi - peeling them apart and respinning them in modern
terms. Her poems move from rhythmic discussions of the Kardashians,
sugar daddies and Twilight to exquisite renderings of precise
emotions and the natural world alike. Tibble is also a master
narrator of teenage womanhood, its exhilarating highs and
devastating lows; her high-camp aesthetics chart the overflowing
beauty, irony and ruination of her surroundings. Poem by poem,
Tibble carves out a bold new way of engaging history without merely
telling it, of straddling modernity and ancestry, desire and
exploitation. These are warm, provocative and profoundly original
poems, written from a world in which the effects of colonization,
land, work and gender are intimately and insidiously connected.
Along the way, Tibble scrutinizes perception and asks how she as a
Maori woman fits into trends, stereotypes and popular culture. With
language that is at once colourful, passionate and laugh-out-loud
funny, Poukahangatus announces the presence of a surpassingly
daring new poet.
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