Selected Poems

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by Derek Walcott

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Drawing from every stage of his career, this volume collects selected poems from Nobel Prize winner Derek Walcott's lifetime of work.

Walcott's Selected Poems brings together famous pieces from his early volumes, including "A Far Cry from Africa" and "A City's Death by Fire," with passages from the celebrated Omeros and selections from his later major works, which extend his contributions to reenergizing the contemporary long poem.

Here we find all of Walcott's essential themes, from grappling with the Caribbean's colonial legacy to his conflicted love of home and of Western literary tradition; from the wisdom-making pain of time and mortality to the strange wonder of love, the natural world, and what it means to be human. We see his lifelong labor at poetic crafts, his broadening of the possibilities of rhyme and meter, stanza forms, language, and metaphor.

Edited and with an introduction by the Jamaican poet and critic Edward Baugh, this volume is a perfect representation of Walcott's breadth of work, spanning almost half a century.

Publisher:: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN:: 9780374531119
Binding:: Paperback
Pages:: 336
Authors:: Derek Walcott
Published Date:: 2007-12-26
Language:: English

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About Derek Walcott

Derek Walcott (1930–2017) was a poet and playwright born in Castries, Saint Lucia. His epic poem Omeros (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1990), written largely in terza rima, transposes Homeric figures to a Caribbean setting. He founded the Trinidad Theatre Workshop and taught for many years at Boston University. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1992. He also won the T.S. Eliot Prize in 2011 for White Egrets.

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