Fast Talking PIPosted in Books, Media Archive, Oceania, Poetry on 2015-04-24 13:35Z by Steven |
Arc Publications
July 2012
80 pages
216 x 138 mm (paperback), 223 x 145 mm (hardback)
Paperback ISBN: 978-1904614-35-7
Hardback ISBN: 978-1904614-77-7
Selina Tusitala Marsh, Senior Lecturer of English Drama and Writing Studies
University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Fast Talking PI (pronounced pee-eye) reflects the poet’s focus on issues affecting Pacific communities in New Zealand, and indigenous peoples around the world including the challenges and triumphs of being afakasi [mixed race]. The book is structured in three sections, Tusitala (personal), Talkback (political and historical) and Fast Talking PIs (dialogue). She writes as a calabash breaker, smashing stereotypes and challenging historic injustices; also exploring the idea of the calabash as the honoured vessel for identity and story. Her aesthetics and indigenous politics meld marvellously together.
List of Contents
- TUSITALA
- Googling Tusitala
- Not Another Nafanua Poem
- Afakasi
- Calabash Breakers
- Hone Said
- Things on Thursdays
- Song for Terry
- Langston’s Mother
- Cardboard Crowns
- The Sum of Mum
- Wild Horses
- Three to Four
- Le Amataga
- The Beginning
- Spare the Rod
- A Samoan Star-chant for Matariki
- Circle of Stones
- TALKBACK
- Guys like Gauguin
- Nails for Sex
- Mutiny on Pitcairn
- Two Nudes on a Tahitian Beach, 1894
- Venus in Transit
- Realpolitik
- Contact 101
- Has the whole tribe come out from England?
- What’s Sarong With This?
- The Curator
- Hawai’i: Prelude to a Journey
- Touring Hawaii and Its People
- Alice’s Billboard
- FAST TALKING PIS
- Fast Talkin’ PI
- Acronym
- Outcast
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- Biographical Note
