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Rangikura: Poems

by Tayi Tibble
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9780593534625
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
  • Publisher Imprint: Alfred A. Knopf
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 96
  • Original Price: USD 28.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 250 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Women Authors, Australian & Oceanian, and European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

A fiery second collection of poetry from the acclaimed Indigenous New Zealand writer that U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo calls, "One of the most startling and original poets of her generation."

Tayi Tibble returns on the heels of her incendiary debut with a bold new follow-up. Barbed and erotic, vulnerable and searching, Rangikura asks readers to think about our relationship to desire and exploitation. Moving between hotel lobbies and all-night clubs, these poems chronicle life spent in spaces that are stalked by transaction and reward. "I grew up tacky and hungry and dazzling," Tibble writes. "Mum you should have tied me/to the ground./Instead I was given/to this city freely."

Here is a poet staking out a sense of freedom on her own terms in times that very often feel like end times. Tibble's range of forms and sounds are dazzling. Written with Māori moteatea, purakau, and karakia (chants, legends, and prayers) in mind, Rangikura explores the way the past comes back, even when she tries to turn her back on it. "I was forced to remember that, /wherever I go, /even if I go nowhere at all, /I am still a descendent of mountains."

At once a coming-of-age and an elegy to the traumas born from colonization, especially the violence enacted against indigenous women, Rangikura interrogates not only the poets' pain, but also that of her ancestors. The intimacy of these poems will move readers to laughter and tears. Speaking to herself, sometimes to the reader, these poems arc away from and return to their ancestral roots to imagine the end of the world and a new day. They invite us into the swirl of nostalgia and exhaustion produced in the pursuit of an endless summer. ("My heart goes out like an abandoned swan boat/ghosting along a lake"). They are a new highpoint from a writer of endless talent. 

TAYI TIBBLE (Te Whānau ā Apanui/Ngāti Porou) was born in 1995 and lives in Te Whanganui a Tara, Aotearoa. In 2017, she completed a master's degree in creative writing from the International Institute of Modern Letters, Victoria University of Wellington, where she was the recipient of the Adam Foundation Prize in Creative Writing. She is the author of Poūkahangatus.

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