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Omeros

Omeros more books like this

by Derek Walcott

There are two currents of history in the author's poem, the visible history charted in events - the tribal losses of the American Indian and the tragedy of African enslavement - and the interior, unwritten epic fashioned from the suffering of the individual in exile.

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Tiepolo's Hound

Tiepolo's Hound more books like this

by Derek Walcott

"Tiepolo's Hound" joins the quests of two Caribbean men: Camille Pisarro, who leaves his native St Thomas to follow his vocation as a painter in Paris; and the poet himself, longing to rediscover a detail from a Venetian painting encountered on an early visit to New York.

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Derek Walcott Collected Poems 1948-1984

Derek Walcott Collected Poems 1948-1984 more books like this

by Derek Walcott

This book includes most of the poems in each of Derek Walcott's seven collections, as selected by the poet, and the complete text of "Another Life" - a narrative poem of over four thousand lines that J.D. McClatchy, writing in "The New Republic," praised as "one of the best long autobiographical poems in English, with the narrative sweep, the ...

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Selected Poems

Selected Poems more books like this

by Derek Walcott, Edward Baugh (Editor)

Drawing from every stage of his career, Derek 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 latest major works.

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The Odyssey: A Stage Version

The Odyssey: A Stage Version more books like this

by Derek Walcott

This text is the result of a commission by the RSC. It shares the Homeric/Caribbean background with Walcott's epic poem "Omeros" which won the W.H. Smith Literary Award in 1990.

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The Arkansas Testament

The Arkansas Testament more books like this

by Derek Walcott

Walcott's eight collection of poems is divided into two parts -- "There," verse evoking the poet's native Carribbean, and "Elsewhere."

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Dream on Monkey Mountain and Other Plays

Dream on Monkey Mountain and Other Plays more books like this

by Derek Walcott

On a Caribbean island, the morning after a full moon, Felix Hobain tears through the market in a drunken rage. Taken away to sober up in jail, all that night he is gripped by hallucinations: the impoverished hermit believes he has become a healer, walking from village to village, tending to the sick, waiting for a sign from God. In this dream, his ...

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The Bounty

The Bounty more books like this

by Derek Walcott

A collection of verse, including a long sequence in memory of the poet's mother and a series dedicated to the poet Joseph Brodsky. Although many of the poems chronicle Walcott's visits to Europe, his native island of St Lucia is of central importance to the collection.

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Homage to Robert Frost

Homage to Robert Frost more books like this

by Joseph Brodsky, Seamus Heaney, Derek Walcott

Three Nobel Prize-winning poets explore the mythologies that surround the controversial and misunderstood life of Robert Frost.

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Three Plays: Juno and the Paycock, the Shadow of a Gunman, the Plow and the Stars

Three Plays: Juno and the Paycock, the Shadow of a Gunman, the Plow and the Stars more books like this

by Sean O'Casey, Derek Walcott (Photographer)

Three plays by Eugene O'Neill: "Desire Under the Elms," "Strange Interlude," and "Mourning Becomes Electra."

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The Prodigal: A Poem more books like this

by Derek Walcott

In this long epic poem, Nobelist Derek Walcott writes about a wanderer who makes his way across Europe, up and down America's east coast, and always--in his mind and heart and, at last, for real--to his native St. Lucia, where Walcott himself was born. In the course of the poem, Walcott returns constantly to the themes of mortality and memory as ...

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What the Twilight Says: Essays more books like this

by Derek Walcott

A collection of essays and critical writings by the winner of the 1992 Nobel Prize for Literature. Among the subjects in this collection are the examples of his poetic mentors and confreres, Robert Lowell, Joseph Brodsky and Seamus Heaney, and the political issues raised by the writings of his fellow Caribbeans V.S. Naipaul and Patrick Chamoiseau.

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The Prodigal more books like this

by Derek Walcott

The Novel Prize-winning poet takes readers on a journey through physical and mental landscapes, from Greenwich Village to the Alps, Pescara to Milan, Germany to Cartagena. But always in "the music of memory, water" abides St. Lucia, the author's birthplace, and the living sea.

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The Antilles: Fragments of Epic Memory: The Nobel Lecture more books like this

by Derek Walcott

Derek Walcott was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature on December 10, 1992. His Nobel lecture is a stirring evocation of the multivalent wholeness of the culture of the Antilles, forged out of a violent history against a land- and seascape of immemorial dimensions. "Caribbean culture is not evolving but already shaped", writes Walcott. "Its ...

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Collected Poems of Derek Walcott more books like this

by Derer Walcott, Derek Walcott

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Walker and Ghost Dance more books like this

by Derek Walcott

Dazzling dramas on American themes from the Nobel laureateOn a cold winter's day on the Dakota plains, Catherine Weldon receives a caller, Kicking Bear, bringing news of Indian rebellion. In the fort nearby, a tiny community splinters apart over how to react. In "Ghost Dance," first performed in 1989, Walcott turns a story with a foregone ...

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Midsummer more books like this

by Derek Walcott

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What the Twilight Says more books like this

by Derek Walcott

Walcott's first collection of prose writings includes critical essays on 10 writers as diverse as Robert Lowell, Hemingway, and V. S. Naipaul, as well as meditations on Caribbean life and culture. It also includes his Nobel address, "The Antilles: Fragments of Epic Memory" and a short story.

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Selected Poetry more books like this

by Derek Walcott

A selection of the poetry of Derek Walcott, winner of the 1992 Nobel Prize for Literature. The nature of memory and the creative imagination, the history, politics and landscape of the West Indies, Walcott's loves and marriages and his enduring awareness of time and death, are recurring themes.

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Latin American Writers at Work more books like this

by Paris Review (Creator), George Plimpton (Editor), Derek Walcott (Introduction by)

The fourth book in the Modern Library's "Paris Review" Writers at Work series, this is a thundering collection of interviews with some of the most important and acclaimed Latin American writers of our time.

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The Fortunate Traveller more books like this

by Derek Walcott

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Another life more books like this

by Derek Walcott

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Collected poems 1948-1984 more books like this

by Derek Walcott

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Star Apple Kingdom more books like this

by Derek Walcott

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Dream on Monkey Mountain more books like this

by Derek Walcott

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