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Within these pages, the reader will encounter a wild garden of genres, including poetry, chant, short fiction, novel excerpts, creative nonfiction, visual texts, and even a dramatic play—all written in multilingual offerings of English, Pacific languages, pidgin, and translation. Seven main themes emerge: \"Creation Stories and Genealogies,\" \"Ocean and Waterscapes,\" \"Land and Islands,\" \"Flowers, Plants, and Trees,\" \"Animals and More-than-Human Species,\" \"Climate Change,\" and \"Environmental Justice.\" This aesthetic diversity embodies the beautiful bio-diversity of the Pacific itself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe urgent voices in this book call us to attention—to action!—at a time of great need. Pacific ecologies and the lives of Pacific Islanders are currently under existential threat due to the legacy of environmental imperialism and the ongoing impacts of climate change. 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