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  title info:
    title: Black sugarcane
  title info:
    title: Black sugarcane (Collection)
  name:
    name part: Kersel, Nafanua Purcell
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: New Zealand poetry-21st century.
  genre: poetry.
  genre: Poetry.
  genre: Poésie.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nz
    date issued: 2025
    copyright date: 2025
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 128 pages ; 21 cm
  abstract: "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 regenerationr"--OverDrive.
  note: Nafanua Purcell Kersel.
  note: In English with some Samoan.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  note: Ockham Book Awards, Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry, 2026
  subject:
    topic: Samoan poetry (English)
    temporal: 21st century
  classification: PR9639.4.K47 B53 2025
  classification: 821/.92
  classification: NZ821.3
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Black sugarcane
  identifier: 9781776922222
  identifier: 1776922220
  location:
    physical location: POD
  record info:
    record content source: NZ1
    record creation date: 250319
    record change date: 20260712032413.5
    record identifier: in00005787387
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng