Presented by Manoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing
Varua Tupu—the first anthology of its kind—offers English-speaking readers the stories, memoirs, poetry, photography, and paintings of a French Polynesian artistic community that has been growing in strength since the 1960s. In the literature and images of Varua Tupu, the people of this astonishing group of islands speak for themselves.
Fa‘a‘ā: A Photographic Essay, 1
Michel Chansin
A Strange Ship, 13
Louise Peltzer
Three Poems, 23
Flora Devatine
from Hymns to My Island, 31
Louise Peltzer
A Little Scholarship Recipient from Auti, 37
Taaria Walker
Tangata: A Photographic Essay, 53
Marie-Hélène Villierme
The Source: An Interview with Henri Hiro, 71
Rai a Mai
Three Poems, 83
Henri Hiro
Three Poems, 91
Patrick Araia Amaru
from Vai: River in a Cloudless Sky, 97
Rai a Mai
Maker of Dreams, 105
Bruno Saura
Bobby, 117
John Lind
from Breadfruit and Frangipani, 127
Célestine Hitiura Vaite
from Mutisms, 147
Titaua Peu
The Arrival, 153
Kareva Mateata-Allain
Marquesas: A Photographic Essay, 169
Michel Chansin
Tattoo, 179
Rai a Mai
Glossary, 187
Contributors, 189