The Mana Of The Moai

Description:

chapbook, special edition of Spanner poetry journal (UK)(2004), (editor/publisher Allen Fisher) poetry and prose. cover is part of a postcard sent to William Sherman by Thor Heyerdahl relating to the undeciphered Rongorongo writing of Rapa Nui (Easter Island), and the back cover is a Rongorongo board featuring Stars of David, which may support Heyerdahl's thesis that some initial settlement of the island was from Egypt.

subjects: poetry and prose,  part of a longer unpublished work on Rapa Nui,  bibiliography of William Sherman's published writings of the Pacific.

People: Rapa Nui (Easter Island)....speculations,  stolen Moai (in British Museum),  romance and nostalgia,  Polynesia

Places: Rapa Nui,  Moorea (small island near Tahiti) where the author often visited and lived for a time in the 1990's,  see also www.torriano.org.

Times: end of 20th century