Mission Work Poems

Name: Mission Work Poems
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ISBN: 9780618982677

ISBN-10: 0618982671

ISBN-13: 9780618982677

Edition: 2008

Authors: HarperCollins Publishers, Stanley Plumly

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Mission Work is an arresting collection of poems based on Aaron Bakers experiences as a child of missionaries living among the Kuman people in the remote Chimbu Highlands of Papua New Guinea. Rich with Christian and Kuman myths and stories, the poems explore Western and tribal ways of looking at the world-an interface of vastly different cultures and notions of spirituality, illuminated by the poets own struggles as he comes of age in this unique environment. The images conjured in Mission Work are viscerally stirring: natives slaughter pigs for a Chimbu wedding ceremony; a cloud of mosquitoes moves through a slender ray of sunlight; hands sting as they beat a drum made of dried snakeskin.…

Book details

List price: $14.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 3/18/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 80
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.286
Language: English



Foreword


Chimbu Wedding


Notebook


Commission


Cargo Cult


Bones


Blood Debt


Bird of Paradise


The Taban Tree


Second Genesis


Sing-sing Kiama


Spirits of the Low Ground


The Red Snake


Bride Price


The Weaver


The Zero in the Branches


How Do You Like Your Blue-Eyed Boy?


Departures


Taro


Read and Say Nothing


Albino


A Prayer


Above Kerowagi


War


Evil Spirit


In Guru Woods


Darkness Legend


Ditowagle


The Day and the Hour


The Last Way


Highlands Highway


Highlands Mission


Notes


Acknowledgments