Includes bibliographical references (p. xxxviii-xliv).
Adieu 1970 -- Sobbing cries -- Word of struggle -- Behind the walls -- Rebel sun -- Where is the Moon? -- Day after day -- Dawn serenade -- Kanak reserves -- Kanak dog-day dusk -- Naked cloud nights -- White sleepless nights -- Millenia -- Questions -- Speaking grief -- Wave-song -- Writing -- Roots -- o.t.h.e.r -- Death -- Independence -- Being -- Being alone -- The land -- The waiting -- Fear -- Being with the other -- Creation -- Listen -- Hope -- Speaking truth -- Elsewhere -- Toward tomorrow -- For Bernadette -- Word memory -- It's sign of the times -- The land -- Custom -- Boucan -- Love and other catastrophes -- Truth -- Death -- Waste land -- Tropical town -- With back bowed -- Mangrove swamp -- Drag net -- Netted -- Decline -- In the land of King Nick.
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"The second volume in a new series publishing Francophone writers of the Pacific in English, Sharing as Custom Provides presents a selection of the poetry of Dewe Gorode, the leading Kanak author of New Caledonia. The poems included here are a lyrical tribute to country, home and family, viewed through a lens of nostalgia, pragmatism and regret. This volume includes both English translations and the original French versions of Gorode's poems."--Jacket.