A Bathful of Kawakawa and Hot Water : Selected writings of Hana Pera Aoake
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>i>Hana Pera Aoake (Tainui, Ngati Raukawa, Ngati Hinerangi) is an artist and writer based for now in Lisbon, Portugal.
This authoritative debut volume collects a number of the authors provocative texts from online sources, and reformats them for a new printed experience, brought to life by special use of the mid-20th Century typefaces designed by Samoan New Zealander Joseph Churchward.
"Writing with radical tenderness, with beauty and pain and precision, Hana Pera Aoake envisions an anticapitalist, de-colonial, Indigenous way of living and being, transcending the borders of poetry and prose in a style similar to that of Claudia Rankine and Layli Long Soldier. A bath full of kawakawa and hot water is an essential poetic text in the literature of Aotearoa, and a call to action at the end of the world."
Nina Mingya Powles