Caroline Sinavaiana-Gabbard

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Caroline Sinavaiana-Gabbard is a Samoan writer and Associate Professor of Pacific literature at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa.[1] She is also a poet.[2]

Caroline Sinavaiana-Gabbard
BornUtulei village, Tutuila, American Samoa
OccupationProfessor
NationalityAmerican
GenrePoetry

Biography[]

Sinavaiana-Gabbard was born in Utulei village, Tutuila, American Samoa.[3] She is Mike Gabbard's sister, and Tulsi Gabbard's aunt.[4] In 2010 she lived in the Mānoa Valley in Honolulu.[5]

She completed her bachelor's degree at Sonoma State University, her Masters at the University of California, Berkeley, and her PhD at the University of Hawai'i.[6]

Sinavaiana-Gabbard's critically acclaimed poetry and scholarship have appeared in national and international journals and her book of poetry - Alchemies of Distance - was published in 2002. The text weaves between prose and verse and communicates a search for a Samoan identity and path of development within a modern colonized world. In his review of Alchemies of Distance, Craig Santos Perez asserts that this text "transforms the distances of time, culture, memory, and migration into a poetry of witness"[7] New Zealand-based Samoan writer and poet Albert Wendt describes Sinavaiana-Gabbard's voice as "a new blend of Samoan, American, and widely ranging poetic and philosophical languages. A unique, vibrant, undeniable voice which shapes the now fearlessly with profound understanding and forgiveness".[8]

I understood poetry as oxygen. And I wanted to breathe.[9]

References[]

  1. ^ "Margaret Mead Was Wrong - Page 2". 3ammagazine.com. Retrieved 9 June 2016.
  2. ^ Madsen, Deborah L. (2015). The Routledge Companion to Native American Literature. Routledge. Page 45. ISBN 9781317693192.
  3. ^ Madsen, Deborah L. (2015). The Routledge Companion to Native American Literature. Routledge. Page 45. ISBN 9781317693192.
  4. ^ Kerry Howley (June 11, 2019). "Tulsi Gabbard Had a Very Strange Childhood". New York. Vox Media.
  5. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on September 9, 2009. Retrieved January 5, 2010.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  6. ^ "Caroline Sinavaiana-Gabbard". Poetry Foundation. 2019-03-04. Retrieved 2019-03-04.
  7. ^ "RATTLE e-Review: ALCHEMIES OF DISTANCE by Caroline Sinavaiana-Gabbard". Rattle.com. Retrieved 9 June 2016.
  8. ^ Caroline Sinavaiana-Gabbard, "Introduction: a kind of genealogy", Alchemies of Distance, (Suva: Institute of Pacific Studies, 2001), back cover.
  9. ^ Caroline Sinavaiana-Gabbard, "Introduction: a kind of genealogy", Alchemies of Distance, (Suva: Institute of Pacific Studies, 2001), p.11.
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