HEAL!
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ISBN 9780473639914
This is not a self-care manual. HEAL! is an examination of trauma, pulling it apart and looking at its insides. How it infiltrates and seeps into everything so that when you look closely enough, it’s not clear what what is self, and what is a reaction to trauma.
HEAL! is a book of poetry from a survivor who refuses to be quiet. It is harrowing at times, it laughs at its own pain and the people who caused it, with the excruciating sensitivity of someone whose hobbies include rescuing bugs. It has the urgency of a movie star who has taken a last sip of air before swimming through an underwater cave towards the light, only to find it’s an interior car light at night and they are speeding with an ex-lover hoping insults don’t become slaps and cause a crash. Withdrawal, disassociation, and rage offer relief, but the narrator finds she is seeking more - uncompromising tenderness and a deeper understanding of herself than she thought would ever be possible.
HEAL! is Tongan-Pākehā author Simone Kaho’s second poetry book.
Published by Saufo’i Press, 2022
Soft cover, 85 pages
148×210mm, upright
Wholesale $15.30. +GST
RRP $30.00
ISBN 9780473639914
This is not a self-care manual. HEAL! is an examination of trauma, pulling it apart and looking at its insides. How it infiltrates and seeps into everything so that when you look closely enough, it’s not clear what what is self, and what is a reaction to trauma.
HEAL! is a book of poetry from a survivor who refuses to be quiet. It is harrowing at times, it laughs at its own pain and the people who caused it, with the excruciating sensitivity of someone whose hobbies include rescuing bugs. It has the urgency of a movie star who has taken a last sip of air before swimming through an underwater cave towards the light, only to find it’s an interior car light at night and they are speeding with an ex-lover hoping insults don’t become slaps and cause a crash. Withdrawal, disassociation, and rage offer relief, but the narrator finds she is seeking more - uncompromising tenderness and a deeper understanding of herself than she thought would ever be possible.
HEAL! is Tongan-Pākehā author Simone Kaho’s second poetry book.
Published by Saufo’i Press, 2022
Soft cover, 85 pages
148×210mm, upright
Wholesale $15.30. +GST
RRP $30.00
ISBN 9780473639914
This is not a self-care manual. HEAL! is an examination of trauma, pulling it apart and looking at its insides. How it infiltrates and seeps into everything so that when you look closely enough, it’s not clear what what is self, and what is a reaction to trauma.
HEAL! is a book of poetry from a survivor who refuses to be quiet. It is harrowing at times, it laughs at its own pain and the people who caused it, with the excruciating sensitivity of someone whose hobbies include rescuing bugs. It has the urgency of a movie star who has taken a last sip of air before swimming through an underwater cave towards the light, only to find it’s an interior car light at night and they are speeding with an ex-lover hoping insults don’t become slaps and cause a crash. Withdrawal, disassociation, and rage offer relief, but the narrator finds she is seeking more - uncompromising tenderness and a deeper understanding of herself than she thought would ever be possible.
HEAL! is Tongan-Pākehā author Simone Kaho’s second poetry book.
Published by Saufo’i Press, 2022
Soft cover, 85 pages
148×210mm, upright
Praise
“Simone Kaho navigates, reveals and transcends the paths of human trauma. Her writing is urgent, visceral, and deeply thoughtful all at once. In this confronting tale of sexual violence and survival, there is ferocity and tenderness, rage and hope, howling and singing. In the end, HEAL! teaches us to go forward in our flawed, beautiful world.”
—Anne Kennedy
"I feel this work start to charge like it could collapse whole systems."
—essa may ranapiri
"I read this book in one sitting. Paralysed by the beauty, purpose and pungency of the writing. If the ancestral goddess speaks, it speaks in Simone’s lyrical ahioahio. We enter a whirlpool of words. They pull us in, hold us close enough to hear the text breathing. Momentum builds, in spiralling, cycling motion until—for a moment—it is as if we see through the cool eye of the hurricane. This is a powerful witnessing. As Audre Lorde says, our silences have never saved us. Simone Kaho will save more than one life by writing her own trail into the hurricane and out."
—Karlo Mila