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Tracing flows from the mountains to the ocean, from the sky to the earth, and from ancestor to mother to child, these poems are rooted in the rich ancestral and contemporary literature of Hawaiʻi —moʻolelo, moʻokūʻauhau, and mele —honoring Hawaiian ʻāina, culture, language, histories, aesthetics, and futures. The poems in Āina Hānau / Birth Land cycle through sacred and personal narratives while exposing and fighting ongoing American imperialism, settler colonialism, militarism, and social and environmental injustice to protect the ʻāina and its people. The ongoing environmental crisis in Hawaiʻi, inextricably linked to colonialism and tourism, is captured with stark intensity as McDougall writes, Violence is what we settle for / because we’ve been led to believe / green paper can feed us / more than green land. The experiences of birth, motherhood, miscarriage, and the power of Native Hawaiian traditions and self-advocacy in an often dismissive medical system is powerfully narrated by the speaker of the titular poem, written for McDougall’s daughters. ‘Āina Hānau reflects on what it means to be from and belong to an ʻāina hānau, as well as what it means to be an ‘āina hānau, as all mothers serve as the first birth lands for their children.","forthcoming":false,"isbn13":"9780816548354","publication_date":"20230601","publisher":"The University of Arizona Press","slug":"aina-hanau-birth-land","subtitle":"[print Replica] Kindle Edition","title":"Aina Hanau / Birth Land"},"discovery":{"categories":{"all":[{"bisac_code":"POE005060","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Asian American Poetry","score":0.7477,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"POE023050","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Family Poems","score":0.7371,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"POE023040","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Place Poetry","score":0.7351,"source":"bisac_hint_model"}],"hint":[{"bisac_code":"POE005060","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Asian American Poetry","score":0.7477,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"POE023050","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Family Poems","score":0.7371,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"POE023040","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Place Poetry","score":0.7351,"source":"bisac_hint_model"}],"publisher":[{"bisac_code":"FIC059000","confidence_band":"high","label":"Indigenous Fiction","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"},{"bisac_code":"POE000000","confidence_band":"high","label":"POETRY / General","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"},{"bisac_code":"POE023040","confidence_band":"high","label":"Place Poetry","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"},{"bisac_code":"POE024000","confidence_band":"high","label":"Women Poets","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"},{"bisac_code":"POE030000","confidence_band":"high","label":"POETRY / Indigenous","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"}]},"genres":[{"label":"Asian American Poetry","score":0.7477,"slug":"asian-american-poetry"},{"label":"Family Poems","score":0.7371,"slug":"family-poems"},{"label":"Place Poetry","score":0.7351,"slug":"place-poetry"}],"reader_fit":["Good for readers interested in Native Hawaiian poetry and cultural traditions","Readers drawn to poetry about land, colonialism, and environmental justice"],"related_lists":[],"series":null,"similar_books":[{"authors":["Kaylin Melia George"],"book_id":"9781636551128","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9781636551128.jpg?v=74b4be53c286b9ff","score":0.7123,"title":"Aloha Everything","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9781636551128"},{"authors":["Dr. Haunani-Kay Trask","Haunani-Kay Trask"],"book_id":"9780824820596","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9780824820596.jpg?v=bc8a8b6dc9669d64","score":0.6931,"title":"From a Native Daughter","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9780824820596"},{"authors":["Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu","Dean Hamer","Joe Wilson"],"book_id":"9780593530061","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9780593530061.jpg?v=96c734daab5a3070","score":0.659,"title":"Kapaemahu","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9780593530061"}],"topics":[{"evidence_refs":["keyword:native hawaiian poetry"],"label":"Poetry","score":0.1898,"slug":"poetry"},{"evidence_refs":["keyword:sun tracks series university of arizona press"],"label":"Series","score":0.0644,"slug":"series"},{"evidence_refs":["keyword:hawaiian language poems"],"label":"Language","score":0.0318,"slug":"language"},{"evidence_refs":["keyword:english"],"label":"English","score":0.03,"slug":"english"}],"what_you_get":["Themes: Hawaiian land and belonging, Colonialism and environmental injustice, Motherhood and birth.","Themes: Poetry, Series, Language.","Reading lane: Asian American Poetry and Family Poems."]},"llm_signals":{"confidence":0.94,"pacing":"unknown","reader_fit":["Readers interested in Native Hawaiian poetry and cultural traditions","Readers drawn to poetry about land, colonialism, and environmental justice"],"themes":["Hawaiian land and belonging","Colonialism and environmental injustice","Motherhood and birth"],"tropes":[]},"source_presence":{"amazon":true,"book_detail":true,"goodreads":true,"llm_signals":true,"similarity_seed":true},"stats":{"amazon_ratings_count":3,"goodreads_ratings_count":56,"goodreads_reviews_count":11,"quality_score":0.8635}}