Interesting, Max. What I saw, & then heard, the title poem, suggests
to me that what she does is more or less what we call 'spoken word'
performance. Sounds a lot better than it would read on the page, I
think. She's a great performer of it.
How central to what she does is her sense of what she does as honest
speaking of her self? There's a deliberate representation of ethnicity
etc. At the Performing Poetries Colloquium I attended, the dub poets
spoke in a highly committed, politically, manner abut what they do, &
I suspect she would say something similar....
Is it 'lyric'? What?
Doug
On 9-Apr-09, at 2:42 PM, Max Richards wrote:
> Dr Selina Tusitala Marsh’s Fast Talking PI (University of Auckland
> Press, 2009)
> reflects the poet’s own focus on issues affecting Pacific
> communities in New
> Zealand, and indigenous peoples around the world—including the
> challenges and
> triumphs of being afakasi (half-caste).
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