Ransack (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781776562374)

In ransack, essa may ranapiri addresses the difficulty of assembling and understanding a fractured, unwieldy self through an inherited language--a language whose assumptions and expectations ultimately make it inadequate for such a task. These poems seek richer, less hierarchical sets of words to describe ways of being. Punctuated by a sequence of letters to Virginia Woolf's character Orlando, this immersive collection is about discovering, articulating, and defending--to oneself and to others--what it means to exist outside of the western gender binary, as takatapui. It describes an artist in a state of becoming, moving from Te Kore, through Te Po, and into the light.


Author: Essa May Ranapiri
ISBN-10: 1776562372
ISBN-13: 9781776562374
Publisher: Victoria University Press
Language: English
Published: 01/01/2020
Pages: 96
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 8.20h x 6.50w x 0.30d