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Synopsis
The (female) "Malcolm X" of Hawai'I's inconsolable grief and rage at the destruction of her people's land.
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paper 0-934971-70-6 Light In The Crevice Never Seen ($24.95; paper $11.95; Nov.; 144 pp.; 0-934971-71-4; paper 0-934971-70-6) is the first volume of poetry ever published by an indigenous Hawaiian in the mainland US. For a debut collection, it is extraordinarily angry. An activist and an academic, Trask resents what she sees as the subjugation of Hawaii by the Japanese and the Americans, and she is deeply chagrined at the development of tourism, which she believes to have accelerated the decay of native island culture and language. While her view of Hawaiian history and politics will be of interest to outsiders unfamiliar with the islandsand while Eleanor Wilners concise introduction helps put many of these issues into sharp focus for the readerfew who are not already sympathizers will be moved by Trasks shrill, two-dimensional verse, which amounts to a kind of Polynesian agitprop. -- Copyright ©2000, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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