Coconut Milk
80 pages, 6 x 9
Paperback
Release Date:26 Sep 2013
ISBN:9780816530526
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Coconut Milk

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The University of Arizona Press
Coconut Milk is a fresh, new poetry collection that is a sensual homage to place, people, love, and lust. The first collection by Samoan writer and painter Dan Taulapapa McMullin, the poems evoke both intimate conversations and provocative monologues that allow him to explore the complexities of being a queer Samoan in the United States.  

McMullin seamlessly flows between exposing the ironies of Tiki kitsch–inspired cultural appropriation and intimate snapshots of Samoan people and place. In doing so, he disrupts popular notions of a beautiful Polynesia available for the taking, and carves out new avenues of meaning for Pacific Islanders of Oceania. Throughout the collection, McMullin illustrates various manifestations of geopolitical, cultural, linguistic, and sexual colonialism. His work illuminates the ongoing resistance to colonialism and the remarkable resilience of Pacific Islanders and queer-identified peoples.

McMullin’s Fa’a Fafine identity—the ability to walk between and embody both the masculine and feminine—creates a grounded and dynamic voice throughout the collection. It also fosters a creative dialogue between Fa’a Fafine people and trans-Indigenous movements. Through a uniquely Samoan practice of storytelling, McMullin contributes to the growing and vibrant body of queer Indigenous literature.
Dan Taulapapa McMullin is a Samoan American poet, artist, and painter based in California.
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Sa Moana Poems
Tiki Manifesto
‘O Kaulaiku
The Seventh Wave
Turtle Island Poems
In Suva
Laguna Beach Poems
A Drag Queen Named Pipi (at the Bone Bar)
Pray
Fa‘a Fafine Poems
The Bat
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