Tatau

Tatau
ISBN-10
982020318X
ISBN-13
9789820203181
Series
Tatau
Category
Cook Islands
Pages
128
Language
English
Published
2001
Publisher
[email protected]
Author
Jean Tekura Mason

Description

"Jean Tekura Mason's poetry reflects her life as a person living in two worlds - Polynesian and European. Some of her poems are reflective. Others are glib (and deliberately so). There is humour and there is passion - of love and hate, pagan faiths and Christian beliefs, ancestors and dancers, customs and politics, migrants and immigrants, and Pacific flora and fauna - all have stimulated Ms Mason to put pen to paper. At times incisive and descriptive, and at others deeply moging, this book is a collection of poems which is both retrospective perceptive"--Back cover

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