Down on the sidewalk in Waikiki : songs from Wayne Kaumualii Westlake's poems

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Down on the sidewalk in Waikiki : songs from Wayne Kaumualii Westlake's poems

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“Wayne Kaumualii Westlake was only 36 years old when he died in the prime of his life on February 1984. The person who T-boned his car snuffed out one of Hawaiʻi’s most remarkable warrior-poets. Wayne’s manuscripts lay hidden for years in an outdoor shed, covered only by a tarp — manuscripts that rarely, if ever, saw the light of day even when Wayne was alive. Fortunately, in 2000, Mei-Li M. Siy rescued his surviving manuscripts from destruction. To this day, as Westlake’s literary executor, ...

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Date created

[2013]

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Wayne Westlake

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https://www.aucklandmuseum.com/discover/collections/record/1428398

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Hawaii, United States

Related subjects

Hawaii--Poetry / Richard Hamasaki Hawaiʻi and Pacific Collection/Richard and Mark Hamasaki Donation / Richard and Mark Hamasaki Donation

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