{"title":"Tayi Tibble","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"poukahangatus-poems","title":"Poukahangatus: Poems","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn acclaimed young poet explores her identity as a twenty-first-century Indigenous woman. Poem by poem, Tibble carves out a bold new way of engaging history, of straddling modernity and ancestry, desire and exploitation.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIntimate, moving, virtuosic, and hilarious, Tayi Tibble is one of the most exciting new voices in poetry today. In \u003ci\u003ePoūkahangatus\u003c\/i\u003e (pronounced \"Pocahontas\"), her debut volume, Tibble challenges a dazzling array of mythologies--Greek, Māori, feminist, kiwi--peeling them apart, respinning them in modern terms. Her poems move from rhythmic discussions of the Kardashians, sugar daddies, and \u003ci\u003eTwilight\u003c\/i\u003e to exquisite renderings of the natural world and precise emotions (\"The lump in her throat swelled like a sea that threatened to take him from her, and she had to swallow hard\"). Tibble is also a master narrator of teenage womanhood, its exhilarating highs and devastating lows; her high-camp aesthetics correlate to the overflowing beauty, irony, and ruination of her surroundings. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThese are warm, provocative, and profoundly original poems, written by a woman for whom diving into the wreck means taking on new assumptions--namely, that it is not radical to write from a world in which the effects of colonization, land, work, and gender are obviously connected. Along the way, Tibble scrutinizes perception and how she as a Māori woman fits into trends, stereotypes, and popular culture. With language that is at once colorful, passionate, and laugh-out-loud funny, \u003ci\u003ePoūkahangatus\u003c\/i\u003e is the work of one of our most daring new poets.","brand":"Tayi Tibble","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43793322016810,"sku":"9780593467893","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/poukahangatus-poems-2700637.jpg?v=1762150760"},{"product_id":"rangikura-poems","title":"Rangikura: Poems","description":"\u003cb\u003eA fiery second collection of poetry from the acclaimed Indigenous New Zealand writer that U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo calls, \"One of the most startling and original poets of her generation.\"\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTayi Tibble returns on the heels of her incendiary debut with a bold new follow-up. Barbed and erotic, vulnerable and searching, \u003ci\u003eRangikura \u003c\/i\u003easks readers to think about our relationship to desire and exploitation. Moving between hotel lobbies and all-night clubs, these poems chronicle life spent in spaces that are stalked by transaction and reward. \"I grew up tacky and hungry and dazzling,\" Tibble writes. \"Mum you should have tied me\/to the ground.\/Instead I was given\/to this city freely.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHere is a poet staking out a sense of freedom on her own terms in times that very often feel like end times. Tibble's range of forms and sounds are dazzling. Written with Māori \u003ci\u003emoteatea\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003epurakau\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003ekarakia \u003c\/i\u003e(chants, legends, and prayers) in mind, \u003ci\u003eRangikura \u003c\/i\u003eexplores the way the past comes back, even when she tries to turn her back on it. \"I was forced to remember that, \/wherever I go, \/even if I go nowhere at all, \/I am still a descendent of mountains.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt once a coming-of-age and an elegy to the traumas born from colonization, especially the violence enacted against indigenous women, \u003ci\u003eRangikura \u003c\/i\u003einterrogates not only the poets' pain, but also that of her ancestors. The intimacy of these poems will move readers to laughter and tears. Speaking to herself, sometimes to the reader, these poems arc away from and return to their ancestral roots to imagine the end of the world and a new day. They invite us into the swirl of nostalgia and exhaustion produced in the pursuit of an endless summer. (\"My heart goes out like an abandoned swan boat\/ghosting along a lake\"). They are a new highpoint from a writer of endless talent.","brand":"Tayi Tibble","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43793322278954,"sku":"9780593534625","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/rangikura-poems-8304143.jpg?v=1762150760"}],"url":"https:\/\/thepoetryshop.com\/collections\/tayi-tibble.oembed","provider":"The Poetry Shop LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}