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Author: Vaughan Rapatahana

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  • : 22.99 NZD
  • : 9781907878916
  • : erbacce Press
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  • : January 2017
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Barcode 9781907878916
9781907878916

Local Description

Vaughan Rapatahana is in love with language, Maori, Tagalog, Cantonese, and the not-to-be trusted English language.  I love the language he uses in this book - knotty, gnarled, tough.  Assonance, consonance, lines as short as the breath of a man fighting or copulating.  Vaughan Rapatahana and I both love the sounds of language and, even more, the people who speak it, slang it, sign it, sing it, slaughter it, use it honestly.

- Reid Mitchell, poet and consulting editor at CHA: An Asian Literary Journal.