Goddess muscle
By: Karlo Mila
Publisher: Huia
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand
Language: eng
Number of pages: 215
ISBN-13: 9781775504009; 9781775506355
Copyright date: 2020
Subjects: Polynesian poetry; Pacific Island poetry (English)
Work titles: Poems
Description: "This...poetry collection...brings together poetry written over a decade. The poems span the intensity of personal relationships and the urgency of political issues. Her voice does not shy away from exploring the effects of racism, poverty and power on Pasifika peoples or from meditating on the daily politics of being a woman, partner and mother. But at their centre, her reflections on love, identity, culture and community honour humanity and the need for an open heart"--Back cover.
Notes: In English with some Māori, Samoan and Hawaiian.
Table of contents: title: Your people will gather around you: love after love; title: Malaga: the journey; title: Oceania; title: For Teresia Teaiwa; title: Bottled ocean; title: A conversation with Hone Tuwhare; title: Letter to J C Sturm; title: Tagaloa: the order of things; title: In the beginning; title: Papatūānuku; title: Te awa: love song for Manawatū; title: Matau mana moana; title: Mana; title: Ngatu; title: Lonely; title: Readjusting great expectations; title: A woman scorned; title: The unfaithful heart of her quiet; title: Bruise; title: Terms of a Treaty; title: Enter hot man at an international conference; title: Itinerary of infidelity; title: Summer, bad, awake, alone,; title: Let me tell you what I remember; title: Whiro; title: Love isn't; title: The good wife's prayer; title: What the student said: O'ahu 313; title: Tūtū Pele intervenes; title: Our generation : 'Āina Aloha; title: Intergenerational healing: lessons from Hawai'i; title: Anchoring the cry from within; title: Kūkaniloko; title: Shark; title: Hina: advice column across the ages; title: The tale of Hina and Sinilau; title: Hina and her pool; title: Rupe/Lupe; title: What trees will say; title: Dry docked; title: Wedding river song; title: Is that a sex poem?; title: Go-betweens; title: Bloodshed; title: Carved on a pou; title: You've written a lot of poems, he said; title: Odyssey in black sand; title: How to break a curse; title: After reading Ancestry; title: Son, for the return home; title: We find ourselves statistics; title: Finding our way; title: Our fears; title: Moemoeā; title: A Tongan reflection on Tino Rangatiratanga; title: Tūhoe boys; title: For Tamir, with love from Aotearoa; title: Now THIS is reverse racism; title: For all my sisters; title: The sounds of Princess Ashika; title: Spirited leadership; title: Lost and found; title: Poem for the Commonwealth, 2018; title: Kapihe's prophesy; title: Matariki: a call to kāinga; title: Te korekore; title: Te pō: the dark ages; title: Te ao mārama: the world of light; title: Unbecoming; title: The art of walking in dark light; title: Goddess muscle meditation.