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The Folding Cliffs: A Narrative
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- Release Year
- 2000
- ISBN
- 9780375701511
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0375701516
ISBN-13
9780375701511
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1579281
Product Key Features
Book Title
Folding Cliffs : a Narrative
Number of Pages
352 Pages
Language
English
Topic
General, Poetry, American / General
Publication Year
2000
Genre
Literary Criticism, Poetry, Literary Collections
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
17.6 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
98-027434
Reviews
"A major American verse narrative, of which we have too few of this quality. As an achievement it joins the very best of Merwin:The Lice,Travels, andThe Vixen." --Harold Bloom "A masterpiece...His work is like the best gift, unexpected, surprising, and, once considered, profoundly indispensable."--Jane Kramer "A powerful revisionary telling of a powerful story that makes of a far-flung corner of American geography and history a central event for our national culture."-- John Hollander "The Folding Cliffs is a masterpiece--a truly original masterpiece, on a very big scale. I could not put it down, and read it with a mixture of amazement and admiration that went on growing to the last page. Merwin's sinuous, infinitely flexible voice has created a new kind of narrative verse: the tragic history of Hawaii, suffered through one family, told almost as if by a native, with a point-blank simplicity and effortless saga-like realism." --TED HUGHES "A thrilling historical narrative--taut and skillful and full of lost values. Merwin creates a powerful poetic narrative with great intimacy and humanity." --MICHAEL ONDAATJE "A bold and stunning chronicle of Hawaii, all the way back to its creation in past ages when volcanoes thrust upward through the blue surface of the Pacific--all beautifully fashioned in a rare epic poetry which is also a kind of transcendent prose. A classic." --PETER MATTHIESSEN "A masterful narrative. What ensues within the structure of the community becomes the story of our time. Through the hand of perhaps our most gifted poet, themes of cruelty and compassion, faith and despair, beauty and the loss of the native world around us, become the strands woven around a deeply spiritual story." --TERRY TEMPEST WILLIAMS "The Folding Cliffs is a vision of love and violence that breathes with the vibrant life and tragic history of the Hawaiian Islands. At one masterstroke, W. S. Merwin here restores to American poetry the narrative grandeur, mythic resonance, and sweeping moral scrutiny of an earlier age's epics. His book is an astonishment that will quicken and enlarge the spirit." --J. D. McCLATCHY From the Hardcover edition., "A major American verse narrative, of which we have too few of this quality. As an achievement it joins the very best of Merwin: The Lice , Travels , and The Vixen ." --Harold Bloom "A masterpiece...His work is like the best gift, unexpected, surprising, and, once considered, profoundly indispensable."--Jane Kramer "A powerful revisionary telling of a powerful story that makes of a far-flung corner of American geography and history a central event for our national culture."-- John Hollander "The Folding Cliffs is a masterpiece--a truly original masterpiece, on a very big scale. I could not put it down, and read it with a mixture of amazement and admiration that went on growing to the last page. Merwin's sinuous, infinitely flexible voice has created a new kind of narrative verse: the tragic history of Hawaii, suffered through one family, told almost as if by a native, with a point-blank simplicity and effortless saga-like realism." --TED HUGHES "A thrilling historical narrative--taut and skillful and full of lost values. Merwin creates a powerful poetic narrative with great intimacy and humanity." --MICHAEL ONDAATJE "A bold and stunning chronicle of Hawaii, all the way back to its creation in past ages when volcanoes thrust upward through the blue surface of the Pacific--all beautifully fashioned in a rare epic poetry which is also a kind of transcendent prose. A classic." --PETER MATTHIESSEN "A masterful narrative. What ensues within the structure of the community becomes the story of our time. Through the hand of perhaps our most gifted poet, themes of cruelty and compassion, faith and despair, beauty and the loss of the native world around us, become the strands woven around a deeply spiritual story." --TERRY TEMPEST WILLIAMS "The Folding Cliffs is a vision of love and violence that breathes with the vibrant life and tragic history of the Hawaiian Islands. At one masterstroke, W. S. Merwin here restores to American poetry the narrative grandeur, mythic resonance, and sweeping moral scrutiny of an earlier age's epics. His book is an astonishment that will quicken and enlarge the spirit." --J. D. McCLATCHY From the Hardcover edition.
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
811/.54
Synopsis
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author and "one of the greatest poets of our age ... the Thoreau of our era" (Edward Hirsch) comes a thrilling story, in verse, of nineteenth-century Hawaii. Here is the story of an attempt by the government to seize and constrain possible victims of leprosy and the determination of one small family not to be taken. A tale of the perils and glories of their flight into the wilds of the island of Kauai, pursued by a gunboat full of soldiers. A brilliant capturing--inspired by the poet's respect for the people of these islands--of their life, their history, the gods and goddesses of their mythic past. A somber revelation of the wrecking of their culture through the exploitative incursions of Europeans and Americans. An epic narrative that enthralls with the grandeur of its language and of its vision., From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author and "one of the greatest poets of our age ... the Thoreau of our era" (Edward Hirsch) comes a thrilling story, in verse, of nineteenth-century Hawaii. Here is the story of an attempt by the government to seize and constrain possible victims of leprosy and the determination of one small family not to be taken. A tale of the perils and glories of their flight into the wilds of the island of Kauai, pursued by a gunboat full of soldiers. A brilliant capturing-inspired by the poet's respect for the people of these islands-of their life, their history, the gods and goddesses of their mythic past. A somber revelation of the wrecking of their culture through the exploitative incursions of Europeans and Americans. An epic narrative that enthralls with the grandeur of its language and of its vision., From a major American poet -- a thrilling story, in verse, of nineteenth-century Hawaii. The story of an attempt by the government to seize and constrain possible victims of leprosy and the determination of one small family not to be taken. A tale of the perils and glories of their flight into the wilds of the island of Kauai, pursued by a gunboat full of soldiers. A brilliant capturing -- inspired by the poet's respect for the people of these islands -- of their life, their history, the gods and goddesses of their mythic past. A somber revelation of the wrecking of their culture through the exploitative incursions of Europeans and Americans. An epic narrative that enthralls with the grandeur of its language and of its vision.
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PS3566.L27
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