Caroline Sinavaiana-Gabbard

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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