i will wade out till my thighs are steeped in burning flowers I will take the sun into my mouth and leap into the ripe air Alive with closed eyes to dash against the darkness in the sleeping curves of my body Shall enter fingers of smooth mastery with chasteness of sea-girls Will I complete [...]
Recently released books about Melanesia/Pacific: Dictionary of Kyaka Enga, Papua New Guinea by Norm and Sheila Draper. Kyaka Enga isn’t much like Ipili, but this promises to be the most substantive linguistic work on Enga since Lang’s hoary old dictionary, so I’l do well to check it out. It’s 700 pages long! Crime, Corruption, and [...]