Ransack
Author(s): essa may ranapiri
In ransack, essa may ranapiri addresses the difficulty of assembling and understanding a fractured, unwieldy self through an inherited language - a language whose assumptions and expectations ultimately make it inadequate for such a task. These poems seek richer, less hierarchical sets of words to describe ways of being. Punctuated by a sequence of letters to Virginia Woolf's character Orlando, this immersive collection is about discovering, articulating, and defending - to oneself and to others - what it means to exist outside of the western gender binary, as takatapui. It describes an artist in a state of becoming, moving from Te Kore through Te Po and into the light. This is a significant body of work by a seriously talented writer.
Product Information
Longisted for the Ockham NZ Book Awards - Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry 2020
General Fields
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- : Victoria University of Wellington Press
- : Victoria University of Wellington Press
- : 0.163293
- : .3 Inches X 6.5 Inches X 8.25 Inches
- : books
Special Fields
- : essa may ranapiri
- : Paperback
- : English
- : 821.3
- : 96