{"id":52581,"date":"2017-03-17T19:47:57","date_gmt":"2017-03-17T19:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=52581"},"modified":"2017-03-17T19:47:57","modified_gmt":"2017-03-17T19:47:57","slug":"the-poetry-of-derek-walcott-1948-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=52581","title":{"rendered":"The Poetry of Derek Walcott 1948-2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Poetry of Derek Walcott 1948-2013<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Farrar, Straus and Giroux<\/a>
\n2014-01-21
\n640 pages
\nHardcover ISBN: 9780374125615<\/p>\n

Derek Walcott (1930-2017)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Selected by Glyn Maxwell<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

A collection spanning the whole of Derek Walcott’s celebrated, inimitable, essential career<\/em><\/p>\n

“He gives us more than himself or \u2018a world’; he gives us a sense of infinity embodied in the language.” Alongside Joseph Brodsky’s<\/a> words of praise one might mention the more concrete honors that the renowned poet Derek Walcott has received: a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship<\/a>; the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry<\/a>; the Nobel Prize in Literature<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Poetry of Derek Walcott 1948\u20132013<\/em> 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<\/em>; and his late masterpieces, like the tender “Sixty Years After,” from the 2010 collection White Egrets<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Across sixty-five years, Walcott grapples with the themes that have defined his work as they have defined his life: the unsolvable riddle of identity; the painful legacy of colonialism on his native Caribbean<\/a> island of St. Lucia<\/a>; the mysteries of faith and love and the natural world; the Western canon, celebrated and problematic; the trauma of growing old, of losing friends, family, one’s own memory. This collection, selected by Walcott’s friend the English poet Glyn Maxwell<\/a>, will prove as enduring as the questions, the passions, that have driven Walcott to write for more than half a century.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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