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Her limitless her /

Robinson, Reihana MacDonald,

Her limitless her / Reihana Robinson. - 82 pages ; 19 cm - Hoopla series . - Hoopla series. .

Poems.

I want you back -- Beauty -- I have my mother's rhizomes -- Getting old -- When the world is too far -- Mourning song -- No return -- An augur -- How did I lose my husband? -- I bow my head -- We let him down -- From these contraries spring -- How I lost you -- And gone from the earth -- Because we know -- The sadness of mountains -- Send us (a ghetto poem) -- The brat memory -- What is a nation? -- Heart and hand Bloodlines -- Primal radiant -- Jealousy or the main highway -- Ka'ena Point, O'ahu -- This poem -- Love can be this long -- Marrying -- Making beauty and throwing it away -- Again -- And blessed be -- Women on earth -- Mama marae -- How many mothers? -- Heart and hand -- It starts with an E -- Postcard -- Island girl Tokoroa -- Terra nullius.

The bounty of women, how far they'll go, how far they can stretch - to love, to encompass, to bear. Find them here: bosom-packed, dreamy, dragging their offspring, twinsets askew, peeling, darning, preening. In Her Limitless Her Reihana Robinson has created a beguiling space for her to stretch on the page, and for joy to dance and grief to spin.

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New Zealand poetry--21st century.

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