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Dream Fish Floating
Paperback Edition: 1/2005
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 comminities
of origin. The poems take delight in language itself and the possibilities afforded by a Tongan-Samoan-Palangi fusion. Dream Fish Floating is a polyglot chanting back to genealogical and literary bones. It is also a medication on friendship and love.
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Pages : 180
Publisher : Huia Publishers
Subjects: Fiction, NZ Poetry, Poetry, NZ Poetry By Individual Poets, Poetry By Individual Poets