Star Waka

Robert Sullivan (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

104 Seiten

1999
Auckland University Press (Verlag)
978-1-86940-213-6 (ISBN)

Infos

This collection of 100 poems by a Maori writer shows a variety of subject and tone but is unified by recurring motifs and a persistent Maori perspective.

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Published on the cusp of the new millennium, Sullivan's third book of poems, Star Waka, came with some strings attached: each poem had to feature either a star, a waka, or the ocean. Within these parameters, and in 2001 lines, Sullivan creates 100 poems that, he says, themselves function like a waka: 'members of the crew change, the rhythm and the view changes it is subject to the laws of nature'.

Autor

Robert Sullivan is the author of a number of books of poetry, a graphic novel, and a prize-winning book of Maori legends for children. He co-edited, with Albert Wendt and Reina Whaitiri, the anthologies of Polynesian poetry in English Whetu Moana and Mauri Ola. In 1998 he was the Literary Fellow at the University of Auckland and in 2001 he was the Distinguished Visiting Writer at the University of Hawai`i Manoa, where he taught creative writing for some years. He now teaches creative writing at Manukau Institute of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand.

Produkt-Details

• Verlagsort: Auckland
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 170 x 225 mm
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
• ISBN-10: 1-86940-213-8 / 1869402138
• ISBN-13: 978-1-86940-213-6 / 9781869402136
• Zustand: Neuware