Dream Fish Floating

Professor Konai Helu Thaman (Acting Deputy Vice Chancellor, and UNESCO Chair in teacher education &; culture - The University of the South Pacific) says this about the collection: This is a refreshing and welcome addition to the growing list of women's writing in Oceania. Karlo draws wisdom and compassion from her ancestral cultures but is not constrained by them. Honest and unafraid, she has spread her net wide in order to capture the many concerns that many people are grappling with as they face the realities of a globalised and impersonal world. Written with passion, persistence and sensitivity, her poems are insightful, challenging and sometimes provocative. This book should inspire others, especially women, to share their experiences with the rest of the world. Karlo Mila's Voice Travels From Urban Aotearoa To Tonga And Samoa Via Friendships And Family Relationships. In This First Collection Of Poetry She Explores The Intergenerational Tensions Between Migration And Returning, The New And The Traditional, The Emergent Professional Classes And Their Working-class Migrant Communities Of Origin.--back Cover. Tuakana : For Sia Figiel. For Albert Wendt (on His Birthday). For John Pule. For Alice Walker -- Pasifika Revisited : Visiting Tonga: A Sestina Variation. Virgin Loi. On Joining Pacifica. For Carmel. Beyond Blackbirder Legacies. From Pink Katie To Blue Carrie. For Ida. Sacred Pulu. Octupus Auckland: Eight Suburbs. Eating Dark Chocolate And Watching Paul Holmes' Apology. Savai'i Rental. Savai'i Sorceress. For Tui Atua Tupua Tamasese Efi -- Wero : Manuhiri. 21st Key. On One Tree Hill Falling. Annette Sykes Visits: Ahi Kaa. Legendary. Poroporoaki. Highbury. For Papa Sean. Papa Sean -- Yes, This Is A Love Poem : Missed. Friday Night. Leaving Prince Charming Behind. Pj. One Night Standing. Hook Line And Sinker. On Seeing Someone Who... (didn't See Me). The H. Series. For Ava (the Only And Only Blind Man). The Grass Is Greener. Death Of A Dj. 3 Am (after Shakers). Plastic. Venus Fly-trap. After Lunch Reflections. An Independent Observation. Tane Mahuta. Today: Embracing Newness. Dry Land. Five Day Farewell After Fighting. Ode To The God Of Wisdom. Pikipiki Hama Kae Vaevae Manava. He Piko He Taniwha, He Piko He Taniwha. Rarotonga Pretend Honeymooning. This Is Love -- Working Through Life : The Poet As A Unionist. Chivalry Is Not Dead. Ex-trade Union Organiser Angst. Now That I Am No Longer One Of Us. Beaven Lecture Theatre: Otago 2 July 2002. Confessions Of A Pacific Health Bureaucrat -- Chanting Back To The Bones : Hafe Kasi To Afa Kasi. For Alice Hunt. For Makelesi Taulepa: Fefine Mei Ofu. Wednesday Afternoon. Maka. For My Mother. Our Mother Is In Love. For My Aunts (fahu And Beyond). Whenua Tapu. For Aunty Olive (98th Birthday) -- Notes -- Glossary -- Acknowledgements. Karlo Mila. Where the free market meets the fleamarket it's all keynesian mystical." Karlo Mila's voice tavels from urban Aotearoa to Tonga and Samoa via friendships and family relationships. In this first collection of poetry she explores the intergenerational tensions between migration and returning, the new and the traditional, the emergent professional classes and their working-class migrant communities of origin. The poems take delight in language itself and the possibilities afforded by a Tongan-Samoan-Maori-Palangi fusion. Dream Fish Floating is a polyglot chanting back to genealogical and literary bones. It is also a meditation of friendship, family and love.For sale only in the U.S., its dependencies, Canada, and Mexico Where the free market meets the flea market it's all Keynesian mystical."" Karlo Mila's voice travels from urban Aotearoa to Tonga and Samoa via friendships and family relationships.