The Folding CliffsBy: W. S. Merwin 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,