TY - BOOK AU - Thaman,Konai Helu TI - You, the choice of my parents: poems U1 - 821 PY - 1974/// CY - Suva, Fiji PB - Mana Publications, Available from South Pacific Creative Arts Society KW - Families KW - Poetry KW - Tonga KW - Oceania N1 - "Many of these poems have appeared before in MANA Magazine" -- Title page verso; They won't leave -- Women's lib -- My mother taught me -- I tremble -- A working relative -- On waking -- My sister -- My blood -- Resistance -- In session -- Uncivil servants -- Elite -- Grandmama's funeral -- A longing -- The cinema -- You, the choice of my parents -- Island fire -- The encounter, U.S.A. -- The fortune teller -- Reality ER -