HAARE WILLIAMS - WORDS OF A KAUMATUA edited and introduced by Witi Ihimaera

HAARE WILLIAMS - WORDS OF A KAUMATUA

edited and introduced by Witi Ihimaera

DESCRIPTION
ISBN: 9781869409043
Format: medium hardcover with dust jacket
Published: Auckland University Press 2019
Size (mm): 175 w x 235 h x 25 d
Pages: 260
SKU: A4/2508/U401

ABOUT
Edited and introduced by Witi Ihimaera, brings together the poetry and prose of Haare Williams to produce a work that is a biography of the man and his times.

Haare Williams grew up with his Tuhoe grandparents on the shores of Ohiwa Harbour in a te reo world of Tane and Tangaroa, Te Kooti and the old testament, of Nani Wai and curried cockle stew – a world that Haare left behind when he learnt English at school and moved to Auckland.

Over the last half-century, through the Maori arts movement, waves of protest and the rise of Maori broadcasting, Haare Williams has witnessed and played a part in the changing shape of Maoridom. And in his poetry and prose, in te reo Maori and English, Haare has a unique ability to capture both the wisdom of te ao Maori and the transformation of that world.

Includes monochrome images.

CONDITION
New with only light shelf wear on dust jacket.

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