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Remains of a Rainbow

Rare Plants and Animals of Hawaii

Remains of a Rainbow( )
Author: Liittschwager, David
Middleton, Susan
Afterword by: Wilcove, David S.
Foreword by: Merwin, W. S.
ISBN:978-0-7922-6246-6
Publication Date:Oct 2003
Publisher:National Geographic Society
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $30.00
Book Details
Pages:264
Detailed Subjects: Nature / Endangered Species
Travel / United States / West / Pacific (Ak, Ca, Hi, Or, Wa)
Photography / Subjects & Themes / Plants & Animals
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):11.01 x 12 x 0.77 Inches
Book Weight:3.475 Pounds
Author Biography
Liittschwager, David (Author)
W. S. Merwin was born William Stanley Merwin in New York City on September 30, 1927. He received a bachelor's degree from Princeton University in 1948 and did some graduate work there in Romance languages. He worked as a tutor and translator while writing poetry. In 1952, his first collection of poetry, A Mask for Janus, was awarded the Yale Younger Poets Prize. He wrote numerous collections of poetry including Green with Beasts, The Moving Target, The Lice, The Compass Flower, The Rain in the Trees, The River Sound, The Moon Before Morning, and Garden Time. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1971 for The Carrier of Ladders and in 2009 for The Shadow of Sirius, the National Book Award in 2005 for Migration: New and Selected Poems, and the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for The Vixen.

He also published essays, short fiction, memoirs, and translations of Dante, Pablo Neruda, and Osip Mandelstam. Merwin's other works included Unframed Originals, The Lost Upland, The Ends of the Earth, and Summer Doorways. He also received the Bollingen Prize, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the PEN Translation Prize, the Shelley Memorial Award, the Tanning Prize and the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writers' Award. He died on March 15, 2019 at the age of 91.

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