Epigraph:
Here is the pit for our land
the grave for it
that is the foreign spirits.
It is the pit which causes
all the sorrow
to the mothers and children. -- Queen Makea of Avarua
'In this collection, Reiter extends his experiments with "fusion poetry" to focus on Paul Gauguin, who spent years in Tahiti musing on the fate of artists, especially Vincent Van Gogh, with whom he'd had a stormy relationship at Arles, France.'
Carindale : Interactive Press , 2000 pg. 33-43