Fast Talking PI reflects the poet's focus on issues affecting Pacific communities in New Zealand, and indigenous peoples around the world including the challenges and triumphs of being afakasi [mixed race]. The book is structured in three sections, Tusitala (personal), Talkback (political and historical) and Fast Talking PIs (dialogue). She writes as a calabash breaker, smashing stereotypes and challenging historic injustices; also exploring the idea of the calabash as the honoured vessel for identity and story. Her aesthetics and indigenous politics meld marvellously together
- ISBN10 1306476313
- ISBN13 9781306476317
- Publish Date 1 January 2009
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 4 March 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Auckland University Press
- Format eBook
- Pages 81
- Language English