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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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Shawn Wade
reviewed The Folding Cliffs: A Narrative of 19th-Century Hawaii on July 02, 2013 The Folding Cliffs: A Narrative of 19th-Century Hawaii
Not by any means flawless, but quite a remarkable work. Narrative verse in the US in the past 50 years has mostly stunk, and this doesn't. It's quite an affecting story and quite different from Merwin's lyric poetry, though there are moments scattered throughout the "novel" which echo his lyric methods. But this is an actual story, told in an interesting and strong voice. Is it poetry? Hard to say. It's written in lines, but otherwise the rhythms are prose, and are probably in some ways indirectly inspired by the syntax of the King James Version of the Bible. The central story--the famlly lives of Hawaiians affected by leprosy and the way in which the government dealt with it (interment camps, essentially)--is heartbreaking and presents yet another instance of the lack of nobility of the US government and too many Americans in interacting with native peoples: a story that should be more widely told beyond the bounds of Hawaii.
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