Light in the Crevice Never Seen

Light in the Crevice Never Seen by Trask, Haunani-Kay. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780934971706.

Poetry. In an expanded edition of the first book of poetry by an indigenous Hawaiian to be published in North America, Haunani-Kay Trask describes the wounded beauty and the fiery origins of her native land. Through Trasks eyes we see a HawaiI of living contradictions. Strange unscented trees from Asia, ill-clothed people, and miles of wire coexist alongside new-born stone, little sparkling fish, and long spears of moonlight. [Trask] carries us on a path that begins with the violence of dispossession and stolen lives, and takes us through that plundered world into a present where the women gods rise up, strong and resilient, where life is defende with a spear of memory -- Linda Hogan.