Ransack

By Essa May Ranapiri

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1776562372
• ISBN13: 9781776562374
• Release Date: January 2020
• Publisher: Victoria University Press
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.5" x 8.2"