{"product_id":"07-26-22-tibble-tayi-poukahangatus-poems","title":"Tibble, Tayi: Poukahangatus: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eKnopf, hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePub Date:\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e July 26, 2022\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePublisher's Marketing: The American debut of an acclaimed young poet as she explores her identity as a twenty-first-century Indigenous woman.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIntimate, moving, virtuosic, and hilarious, Tayi Tibble is one of the most exciting new voices in poetry today. In \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\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 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\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.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePoem by poem, Tibble carves out a bold new way of engaging history without merely telling it, of straddling modernity and ancestry, desire and exploitation: a truly twenty-first-century negative capability. These 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 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePoūkahangatus\u003c\/i\u003e is the work of one of our most daring new poets.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40104967405591,"sku":"9780593534601","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/products\/ibg.common.titledetail_24_1cd78472-877c-4a5b-8a68-71a5b1e6119f.gif?v=1653085432","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/07-26-22-tibble-tayi-poukahangatus-poems","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}