This collection of postcolonial poems by an emerging Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) young woman poet from Hilo, Hawaii reflects a politically resistant fusion of hip hop, slam, hula, chant and mele.
The title, Honua, means land or earth.
Poet Michael Mc Pherson describes the collection of poems as torrents of language whose raw intensity buries social complacency as though under molten stone.
About the Author Sage U'ilani Takehiro was born to Grace Chao and Paul Takehiro in Hilo, Hawai'i.
Takehiro won her first writing award from Hilo Union School when she was in the first grade, graduated from Hilo HIgh School in 2000, and graduated with high honors from the University of Hawaii at Manoa, with a BA in English and a BA in Political Science, where she has won the Myrle Clark Award and the Ernest Hemingway Award in creative writing.
In 2006 she enrolled in UH-Manoa's Master's Program in English.
Takehiro is a political activist, community supporter, and a lover of the natural environment.
Her work has been published in TROUT, Tinfish, 'Oiwi: a native hawaiian journal, and she writes the Pidgin column in the Big Island Weekly.
Honua is her first book publication.
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Kahuaomanoa Honua, paperback/sage uilani takehiro
