Sourcing Siapo
- Kategoria:
- poezja
- Wydawnictwo:
- CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Data wydania:
- 2016-08-22
- Data 1. wydania:
- 2016-08-22
- Liczba stron:
- 98
- Czas czytania
- 1 godz. 38 min.
- Język:
- angielski
- ISBN:
- 9781537242958
- Tagi:
- South Pacific Oceania Poetry Domestic Violence Alcoholism Gendered Violence
In Sourcing Siapo Penina Ava Taesali tells a story about a mother with ten children and a drunk husband, a story that is relentless in its explorations of complications. And what she writes is something beautiful and resonant for its pursuit of all sorts of loves and its refusals of ease. —Juliana Spahr, Author of The Winter the Wolf Came Sourcing Siapo is a marvel of language. It is as formally innovative as it is wrought with intimacy and human emotions. This is a book of poetry that pulls no punches. I celebrate the publication of this important book for its intellect, realness and above all, necessity. —Truong Tran, Author of Four letter Words “If violence rules the house/ how does one get out?” How do ten children of Samoan, African, Irish and German heritage survive poverty? Cruel discrimination? The absence of a beloved Samoan father? The violent abuse from an alcoholic stepfather? Using forms both protean and richly inventive, Sourcing Siapo gives us the answer. In this family saga told in many voices, Penina Ava Taesali indelibly conveys to us how she and her siblings found “a way out through each other.” This is the poet’s collective song of transcendence. This book is Taesali’s courageous, moving medicine to “cleanse the blood.” —Paulann Petersen, Oregon Poet Laureate Emerita Siapo is Samoan tapa—cloth made by pounding the inner bark of mulberry trees. Sourcing Siapo is a book made by pounding languages and memories into poetry. Not a collection of separate poems, it is a single whole—a journey-quest to find, remember, and reconcile mother, father, siblings, ancestors, languages, races, and cosmologies. The hero, January, is a heroine. One of ten children, each born in a different month, she is Samoan, African, European, and American. Penina Ava Taesali has fashioned, out of the languages and stories that are her heritage and the love, pain, struggle, violation, and imaginative vision that have been her life, a siapo/poetry cloak that is also wings, a garment that wraps and protects—and that lifts and carries. It carries, through the ecstatic rhythms of its impassioned utterance, the whole sweep and tangle of a life, and makes it part of the reader’s own. —Eleanor Berry, President Emerita, National Federation of State Poetry Societies
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OPINIE i DYSKUSJE
One of the notes to „Sourcing Siapo” of making Siapo, the traditional Samoan cloth, is “[i]t is women’s work only and it is very hard work” (Ava Taesali 2016 ) January is the oldest daughter of ten siblings. Their mother remarried after raising seven children with her first, beloved by the offspring Samoan father. After divorce, father Tamā is forced to leave the family while the new partner reveals to be a ruthless and violent predator whom children call a “drunk.” Throughout the novel constructed in forms of poems, letters, and memoires, January tells the heartbreaking story of suffering, frustration, and imaginary world of hope which helps sibling to survive the hard times. November, January, March, May, August, June, September, October, July, and December always protect each other and even though from different fathers, never think of each other as half blood. The memories of January describe her family story from her childhood until the mother’s death followed by sorrow yet compassionate letters. Sourcing Siapo, the traditional Samoan piece of art remains the metaphor of complicated relationship of half-Caucasian and Samoan family where the indigenous culture symbolise home.
Ava Taesali, P. (2016). Sourcing Siapo. An Ala Press Offering.
One of the notes to „Sourcing Siapo” of making Siapo, the traditional Samoan cloth, is “[i]t is women’s work only and it is very hard work” (Ava Taesali 2016 ) January is the oldest daughter of ten siblings. Their mother remarried after raising seven children with her first, beloved by the offspring Samoan father. After divorce, father Tamā is forced to leave the family...
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