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Black Sugarcane
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Product Details
Author:
Nafanua Purcell Kersel
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
128
Publisher:
Te Herenga Waka University Press (June 13, 2025)
Imprint:
Te Herenga Waka University Press
Language:
English
Audience:
General/trade
ISBN-13:
9781776922222
ISBN-10:
1776922220
Weight:
7.52oz
Dimensions:
6.75" x 8.25" x 0.4"
File:
Eloquence-IPG_05092026_P10065192_onix30-20260509.xml
Folder:
Eloquence
List Price:
$19.95
Pub Discount:
60
Case Pack:
36
As low as:
$17.16
Publisher Identifier:
P-IPG
Discount Code:
C
Overview
Black Sugarcane is a landmark debut collection by Nafanua Purcell Kersel. Restless in form and address, these engaging and generous poems ricochet from light to dark, quiet to loud, calm to violence. We meet a loved twin sister as she dives towards the Sacred Centre, a grandmother who knows everything by heart, a shrugging office clerk, and Nafanua herself, an enigmatic shapeshifter. At the heart of Black Sugarcane is a sequence of erasure poems arising from the seminal essay ‘In Search of Tagaloa’ by Tui Atua Tamasese Ta‘isi Efi. From the worlds contained in the text, these poems rise as if inevitable. Another sequence responds to the devastating tsunami that stuck between the Samoan islands of Upolu and Tutuila in September 2009. Within the line, within the word and even the letter, these poems speak to creation and translation, destruction and regeneration.
