{"title":"Craig Santos Perez","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCraig Santos Perez\u003c\/strong\u003e offers a powerful exploration of identity, place, and resilience through poetry that bridges personal and collective histories. His work delves into the complexities of cultural heritage, often reflecting on the nuanced experiences of Native Hawaiians and the impact of colonisation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders will find a profound connection to the environment and community woven throughout his lyrical narratives, inviting contemplation on belonging and resistance. His books illuminate the intersections of arts and culture with evocative language and transformative themes.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"habitat-threshold-by-craig-santos-perez-9781632430809","title":"Habitat Threshold","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith \u003ci\u003eHabitat Threshold\u003c\/i\u003e, Craig Santos Perez has crafted a timely collection of eco-poetry that explores his ancestry as a native Pacific Islander, the ecological plight of his homeland, and his fears for the future. The book begins with the birth of the author’s daughter, capturing her growth and childlike awe at the wonders of nature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs it progresses, Perez confronts the impacts of environmental injustice, the ravages of global capitalism, toxic waste, animal extinction, water rights, human violence, mass migration, and climate change. Throughout, he mourns lost habitats and species, and confronts his fears for the future world his daughter will inherit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAmid meditations on calamity, this work does not stop at the threshold of elegy. Instead, the poet envisions a sustainable future in which our ethics are shaped by the indigenous belief that the earth is sacred and all beings are interconnected—a future in which we cultivate love and “carry each other towards the horizon of care.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThrough experimental forms, free verse, prose, haiku, sonnets, satire, and a method he calls “recycling,” Perez has created a diverse collection filled with passion. \u003ci\u003eHabitat Threshold\u003c\/i\u003e invites us to reflect on the damage done to our world and to look forward, with urgency and imagination, to the possibility of a better future.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47383829315820,"sku":"9781632430809","price":33.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/5555583482769.jpg?v=1773383117"},{"product_id":"call-this-mutiny-by-craig-santos-perez-9781632431288","title":"Call This Mutiny","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA collection of previously published poems by renowned National Book Award-winning Chamoru poet Craig Santos Perez.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe seventh book from award-winning Chamoru author Craig Santos Perez, \u003cem\u003eCall This Mutiny\u003c\/em\u003e brings together poems that were originally published in journals and anthologies from 2008 to 2023. Throughout these selected poems, Perez offers critical explorations of native cultures, decolonial politics, colonial histories, and the entangled ecologies of his homeland of Guam, his current home of Hawaiʻi, and the larger Pacific region in relation to the Global South and the Indigenous Fourth World.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePerez's poetry draws on the power of storytelling to share Indigenous history and culture and to offer healing from the trauma of colonialism and injustice. As he writes, \"If we can write the ocean, we will never be silenced.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47430213533932,"sku":"9781632431288","price":37.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781632431288.jpg?v=1774559379"},{"product_id":"from-unincorporated-territory-amot-by-craig-santos-perez-9781632431189","title":"From Unincorporated Territory [åmot]","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eExperimental and visual poems diving into the history and culture of the poet’s homeland, Guam.\u003c\/b\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis book is the fifth collection in Craig Santos Perez’s ongoing \u003ci\u003efrom unincorporated territory\u003c\/i\u003e series about the history of his homeland, the western Pacific island of Guåhan (Guam), and the culture of his indigenous Chamoru people. “Åmot” is the Chamoru word for “medicine,” commonly referring to medicinal plants. Traditional Chamoru healers were known as yo’åmte; they gathered åmot in the jungle and recited chants and invocations of taotao’mona, or ancestral spirits, in the healing process.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThrough experimental and visual poetry, Perez explores how storytelling can become a symbolic form of åmot, offering healing from the traumas of colonialism, militarism, migration, environmental injustice, and the death of elders.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47470693646572,"sku":"9781632431189","price":43.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781632431189-from-unincorporated-territory-mot.jpg?v=1775223971"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/craig-santos-perez.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}