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Derek Walcott Collected Poems 1948-1984

Derek Walcott Collected Poems 1948-1984 - Paperback

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Availability:In StockContributor:Derek WalcottPublish date:1987-01-01Pages:515
Language:EnglishPublisher:Farrar, Straus and GirouxISBN-13:9780374520250ISBN-10:374520259UPC:9780374520250Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:Anthologies (multiple authors), Caribbean & Latin AmericanSize:8.50 x 6.10 x 1.60 inchesWeight:1.5013Product ID:SC64JRZ7C1

This remarkable collection, which won the 1986 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry, includes most of the poems from each of Derek Walcott's seven prior books of verse and all of his long autobiographical poem, "Another Life." The 1992 Nobel Laureate in Literature, Walcott has been producing--for several decades--a poetry with all the beauty, wisdom, directness, and narrative force of our classic myths and fairy tales, and in this hefty volume readers will find a full record of his important endeavor. "Walcott's virutes as a poet are extraordinary," James Dickey wrote in The New York Times Book Review. "He could turn his attention on anything at all and make it live with a reality beyond its own; through his fearless language it becomes not only its acquired life, but the real one, the one that lasts . . . Walcott is spontaneous, headlong, and inventive beyond the limits of most other poets now writing."

Language:EnglishPublisher:Farrar, Straus and GirouxISBN-13:9780374520250ISBN-10:374520259UPC:9780374520250Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:Anthologies (multiple authors), Caribbean & Latin AmericanSize:8.50 x 6.10 x 1.60 inchesWeight:1.5013Product ID:SC64JRZ7C1
Derek Walcott (1930-2017) was born in St. Lucia, the West Indies, in 1930. His Collected Poems: 1948-1984 was published in 1986, and his subsequent works include a book-length poem, Omeros (1990); a collection of verse, The Bounty (1997); and, in an edition illustrated with his own paintings, the long poem Tiepolo's Hound (2000). His numerous plays include The Haitian Trilogy (2001) and Walker and The Ghost Dance (2002). Walcott received the Queen's Medal for Poetry in 1988 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1992.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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