Captain Cook in the Underworld
Published on 1. November 2013
61 pages
978-1-77558-034-8 (ISBN)
Description
Originally commissioned as the libretto for a work by composer John Psathas for the 50th birthday celebration of the Orpheus Choir, this book-length poem offers fresh perspectives on the familiar story of Cook's Pacific explorations. Employing a broad bicultural approach to reinterpret the Orpheus myth for the South Pacific, Sullivan uses a wide range of styles-from 18th-century dialogue to 21st-century hip hop cadences-to create a revisionist Cook who must accept responsibility for the damage his expeditions have inflicted on the indigenous peoples of the Pacific.
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11/2002
Auckland University Press
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Robert Sullivan, the Maori Liaison Librarian at the University of Auckland, is the author of three volumes of poetry including Jazz Waiata, which won the PEN Award for the Best First Book of Poetry, and Star Waka, which was short-listed for the 2000 Montana New Zealand Book Awards. The former visiting assistant professor in creative writing at the University of Hawaii, and current coeditor of the online literary journal Trout, was one of 12 poets featured on New Zealand's first poetry anthology on audio CD, Seeing Voices.
Content
- Cover
- Copyright
- Epigraph
- INTRODUCTORY NOTE
- ABSOLUTION CHORUS
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- WORKS CONSULTED
