The Poetry of Derek Walcott 19482013 by Derek Walcott
Brand: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Product Description
A collection spanning the whole of Derek Walcotts celebrated inimitable essential career He gives us more than himself or a world he gives us a sense of infinity embodied in the language. Alongside Joseph Brodskys words of praise one might mention the more concrete honors that the renowned poet Derek Walcott has received a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship the Queens Gold Medal for Poetry the Nobel Prize in Literature. The Poetry of Derek Walcott 19482013 draws from every stage of the poets storied career. Here are examples of his very earliest work like In My Eighteenth Year published when the poet himself was still a teenager his first widely celebrated verse like A Far Cry from Africa which speaks of violence of loyalties divided in ones very blood his mature work like The Schooner Flight from The StarApple Kingdom and his late masterpieces like the tender Sixty Years After from the 2010 collection White Egrets. Across sixtyfive years Walcott grapples with the themes that have defined his work as they have defined his life the unsolvable riddle of identity the painful legacy of colonialism on his native Caribbean island of St. Lucia the mysteries of faith and love and the natural world the Western canon celebrated and problematic the trauma of growing old of losing friends family ones own memory. This collection selected by Walcotts friend the English poet Glyn Maxwell will prove as enduring as the questions the passions that have driven Walcott to write for more than half a century. show more
Condition : New
Author : Derek Walcott
Weight : 1084
Publisher : Farrar Straus And Giroux
Language : English
EAN : 9780374537579
ISBN10 : 0374537577
Format : Paperback
Date of Publication : 20171107
Place of Publication : New York
Pagination : 640 Pages
Dimensions : 152 X 228 X 41