Ulu by Kai Gaspar

$20.00

A raw and lyrical poetic memoir, Ulu captures with haunting vivacity the world of Hōnaunau, Hawaiʻi in the 1970s and 80s: the humanity and hunger of its unforgettable villagers, who “seed and feed and breed in the dark,” the sensual coming-of-age of the poet narrator, who, with his keen eye, and desire to protect and heal, “honors, recollects, and chronicles both the troubled and the healing moʻolelo of his ʻāina.” 

In Ulu, Kai weaves together themes of “broken family, queer exploration, and aching love of land and culture,” creating a timeless work of art that has received praise from some of Hawaiʻi and Oceania’s most beloved and well-respected poets and authors.