I am enjoying "Always Italicise: how to write while colonised" by Alice Te Punga Somerville.

It's a book of poetry about the experiences of a Maori academic from Aotearoa, touching on racism, loss of language, migration, and relationship to culture. Swimming in colonialism.

https://uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/always-italicise-how-to-write-while-colonised/ #bookrec #poetrybooks #colonization
Always Italicise: how to write while colonised

A first book of poetry from acclaimed Māori writer and scholar Alice Te Punga Somerville.Shrink-wrapped, vacuum-packed, disassembled, sold for parts, butt of jokes, scapegoats, too this for that, t…

UH Press
I've been drawing connections between the author's experiences and things in my own life, in a way that feels 'safe' based on distance. I'm also re-examining my inherited relationship to colonialism--my dad's side came to the United States from what's now modern Poland. My mom's side was from the British Isles and lived in Appalachia since the 1700s. I experience the benefits of being white in the USA. #bookrec #poetrybooks #colonization