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portada The Folding Cliffs: A Narrative
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Year
2000
Language
English
Pages
352
Format
Paperback
Weight
1
ISBN
0375701516
ISBN13
9780375701511

The Folding Cliffs: A Narrative

W. S. Merwin (Author) · Knopf · Paperback

The Folding Cliffs: A Narrative - W. S. Merwin

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Synopsis "The Folding Cliffs: A Narrative "

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.
W. S. Merwin
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Nacido en Nueva York (EE.UU.) en 1927, el poeta y prosista William Stanley Merwin, se ha alzado con la mayoría de los premios más importantes de la poesía estadounidense, incluyendo dos veces el premio Pulitzer –en 1971 por The Carrier of Ladders y en 2009 por La sombra de Sirio–, el Bollingen Prize, el Tanning Prize, el Lannan Lifetime Achievement Award y, en 2010, fue nombrado Poeta Laureado de los Estados Unidos.
Además de ser un poeta de renombre internacional, es autor de muchas traducciones ya clásicas de obras como El poema del Mío Cid (1959), La chanson de Roland (1962), El Lazarillo de Tormes (1963), o Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada (1969). Durante los años sesenta se manifestó contra la guerra de Vietnam, pero su poesía jamás cayó en lo panfletario; mantuvo su estatura a pesar de que en esos años decidió romper la sintaxis y hacer de su lenguaje un ambiguo y continuo recorrido por la Palabra. Ha mostrado interés por las antiguas culturas, ya sean la quechua, la prehispánica o las ancestrales culturas de Oriente.
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