Westlake
Subtitle: poems by Wayne Kaumualii Westlake (1947-1984)
By: Wayne Kaumualii Westlake ; edited by Mei-Li M. Siy and Richard Hamasaki.
Contributors: Siy, Mei-Li M.; Hamasaki, Richard.
Series: Talanoa
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Honolulu
Language: eng
Number of pages: 275
ISBN-13: 9780824830670
Work titles: Poems.
Description: In an all-too-brief life and literary career, Wayne Kaumualii Westlake produced a substantial body of poetry. He broke new ground as a poet, translated Taoist classical literature and Japanese haiku, interwove perspectives from his Hawaiian heritage into his writing and art, and published his work locally, regionally, and internationally. Westlake: Poems by Wayne Kaumualii Westlake (1947–1984) includes nearly two hundred of Westlake’s poems—most unavailable to the public or never before published.
Notes: “The poems run the whole gamut of emotions . . . and do so with immaculate and measured control of language and imagery . . . [T]his one collection, in my reckoning, establishes Westlake as one of Hawai‘i and the Pacific’s major poets.” —Albert Wendt

Includes bibliographical references.