Lali: A Pacific Anthology, ed. Albert Wendt, 1980
While researching my post on Dreams of a Rainbow I read a fair amount of poetry from around Polynesia (both to try to situate Kauraka’s poetry more firmly in the Polynesian tradition and figure out whether it was objectively mediocre or whether I was just missing something). This is a bit of a long one, so links after the jump.
The Frigate Bird, Alistair Campbell, 1989
Dreams of a Rainbow, Kauraka Kauraka, 1987
An Island to Oneself, Tom Neale, 1966
The Frisbies of the South Seas, Johnny Frisbie, 1959
Doctor to the Islands, Tom and Lydia Davis, 1954
The Island of Desire (The Story of a South Sea Trader), Robert Dean Frisbie, 1944
Around the World in 2000 Books 