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 const...
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Feb 10, 2012
William
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Cover to cover The Folding Cliffs--an epic of Hawaiian history--is gripping. It reads like a novel in the best sense of that phrase, and moves quickly, without a lot of poetic claptrap to gum up the action. That despite the fact that it is composed in ten-to-fourteen syllable, mostly punctuation-free, enjamned lines. The central narrative seems as unlikely as it is compelling. It is the late 19th century on the Hawaiian island of Kauai. Foreigners are conspiring to seize the island chain from it
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Jan 08, 2012
Currently reading this epic poem about the hunting down of Hawaiians who had leprosy and escaped into the Hawaiian valleys, to be followed by colonial soldiers. I remember this story from the days as a college student in Hawaii studying history and someone recently reminded me of it - and gave me this book for Christmas. This is a beautiful work, even though I am only a few pages in. Would be an interesting choice for a class on colonialism or post colonialism.
Apr 27, 2010
A novel in verse! And the most poetic passage on the evolution of life on oceanic islands (Hawaii) I will likely encounter. I read this on my way to Hawaii, and was totally enchanted.
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