Sharing as custom provides selected poems of Déwé Gorodé

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. 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. Translated And Edited By Raylene Ramsay & Deborah Walker. Introduction In English; Poetry In French With English Translation.