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Informationen zum Autor Robert Sullivan is a critically acclaimed and award-winning New Zealand Maori poet who is now based in Honolulu and teaches creative writing at the University of Hawai'i. He has performed at festivals in the US, New Zealand, Italy, India, Germany and Canada. As well as five other books of poetry, he has co-edited Whetu Moana (an anthology of Polynesian poetry), Best New Zealand Poems 2006, and co-edits the online journal Trout. Klappentext Shout Ha! to the Sky explores history and contemporary life from a Maori person's perspective, and seeks to restore possibilities removed through the forces of colonialism. The poetry is intimate, wry, funny, angry and always loving. It weaves into and dialogues with multi-genre work by a range of Pacific authors such as Anne Salmond, Albert Wendt, Haunani-Kay Trask, Witi Ihimaera, and the late Hone Tuwhare, as well as writing from outside the Pacific by Anna Seward, W.B.Yeats, Ezra Pound, Keats, Vijay Seshadri, Dante Alighieri. Inhaltsverzeichnis ContentsAcknowledgements vi1 HISTORIES 11 Maui's Alternate Prayer 22 Love song for Michael King 33 The Charge of the Brown Brigade 44 William Colenso, On the Eve of the Treaty's 50th Jubilee . . . 65 Hanoverian London 86 After Reading W.S. Merwin's The Carrier of Ladders and then finding the Extinct Birds of NZ website. 97 Buller's Honour 118 Letters to Lord Ranfurly 129 Born again 1410A decade a maze 1511 Reconciling 1612 About Anna Seward's Elegy on Captain Cook, 1780. 1713 What if . . . 182 POETICS 1914 Negative Capabilities 2015 Review 2116 The Winding Stair 2217 Seven Voices 2318 Took: A Preface to "The Magpies" 2419 Gesturing at the Sky 2520 Redemption song 2621 Investigator 2722 Letting the sun go down 2823 Elegy for Traveling 293 TIKANGA / CUSTOMS 24 Posture Dance 3225 Va-rua Tupu 3326 Fragments of a Maori Odyssey 3527 Arohanui 3628 Citizen of the World 3729 Starboard 3830 wake 3931 Cape Return 4032A Poem for Whangarei on the Opening of the NewCity Library 4133 Messenger 4334 God and Fathers 444 PERSONAL 4735 Biographical Data 4836 Hui 5037 Songs 5138 On Flowering Ground 5239 Lunch with Frank O'Hara 5440 The Price 5541 Rangatahi 5642 Waiata Whaiaipo: Lover's Song 5743 Love 5844 Boyle 5945 Ata Wai 6046 Rumination 6147 Spines of Smoke 6348 Vissi D'Arte, Vissi D'Amore 6449 My Uncool Popular Tunes 6550 Kick-started by a Bananarama Track 6751 Civilization 6852 Note to PJ 6953 When I meet people here 7054 Northland Museums 725 FORESHORE AND SEABED POEMS 7755 For sure 7856 After the UN Rapporteur Supported MaoriCustomary Rights 7957 Nga- Tohu Whenua 8058 Suite of Poems Addressed to Prime Minister Helen Clark 8159 Poetics Tunnel 8560 One Art 8661 Fancy that 8762 Canst Thou Draw Out Leviathan with an Hook? 8863 Let's Karanga The Whole Thing Off 8964 Manawawera 9065 Someone Asks Us Why 9166 It Will Leave You 9267 The Sneeze 9368 Greenstone Monologues 9469 Spiralling Ground 9670 Karakia 98...
