The Poetry of Derek Walcott 1948-2013
A collection spanning the whole of Derek Walcott's celebrated, inimitable, essential careerHe gives us more than himself or 'a world'; he gives us a sense of infinity embodied in the language.…
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A collection spanning the whole of Derek Walcott's celebrated, inimitable, essential careerHe gives us more than himself or 'a world'; he gives us a sense of infinity embodied in the language. Alongside Joseph Brodsky's words of praise one might mention the more concrete honors that the renowned poet Derek Walcott has received: a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship; the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry; the Nobel Prize in Literature.The Poetry of Derek Walcott 1948-2013 draws from every stage of the poet's 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 one's very blood; his mature work, like The Schooner Flight from The Star-Apple Kingdom; and his