HEAL!

HEAL!
Simone Kaho
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NZ$ 30.00
Paperback
h210 x 148mm - 89pg
16 Sep 2022 NZ
9780473639914
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HEAL! is a poetry book written from the perspective of a survivor of assault. It is an offering to anyone who hassurvived violence; an expression of solidarity, honouring the life and energy necessary to heal. It is harrowing attimes, it laughs at its own pain and the people who caused it. Withdrawal, disassociation, and rage offer relief, but thenarrator finds she is seeking more - uncompromising tenderness and deeper understanding of herself than shethought would ever be possible. HEAL! reminds you that to heal is not to fix, but to feel comfortable in the darkness. Offering perspectives on sexual trauma, colonialism, patriarchy: it is an important book from a Tongan wahinewho refuses to be silent.
I read this book in one sitting. Paralysed by the beauty, purpose and pungency of the writing. If the ancestral goddess speaks, it speaks in Simone' s lyrical ahioahio. We enter a whirlpool of words. They pull us in, hold us close enough to hear the text breathing. Momentum builds, in spiralling, cycling motion until - for a moment - it is as if we see through the cool eye of the hurricane. This is a powerful witnessing. As Audre Lorde says, our silences have never saved us. Simone Kaho will save more than one life by writing her own trail into the hurricane and out. - Karlo Mila
Simone Kaho is a Tongan and Pakeha poet, creative non-fiction writer, and director. Her first poetry collection Lucky Punch waspublished in 2016. She has a master' s degree in poetry from Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington' sInternational Institute of Modern Letters (IIML) and was awarded the IIML 2022 Emerging Pasifika writer in residence. Simone directed the 2019 web series ' Conversations' for E-Tangata and now works as a writer/director for Tagata Pasifika. She is an active voice in Alison Mau' s #metooNZ project.

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