The Poetry of Derek Walcott 1948-2013

✍ Scribed by Walcott, Derek; Maxwell, Glyn

• Book ID: 108632147
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 311 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

**A collection spanning the whole of Derek Walcott's 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 Brodsky's words of praise one might mention the more concrete honors that the renowned poet Derek Walcott has received: a MacArthur 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 late masterpieces, like the tender "Sixty Years After," from the 2010 collection...