Midsummer
 Author: Derek Walcott Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 811 EAN: 9780374208844 Edition: 1st ISBN: 0374208840 Number Of Pages: 78 Publication Date: 1984-06 [... more]
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Dream on Monkey Mountain and Other Plays
Very interesting: I did this book for my literature class and I thought it was vey interesting. It reminded me somewhat of Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man". This book is vey interesting and is written by a man who is basically a minority where [... more]
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Selected Poems
Author: Derek Walcott Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 808 EAN: 9780374531119 ISBN: 0374531110 Number Of Pages: 328 Publication Date: 2007-12-26 Release Date: 2007-12-26 [... more]
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Omeros
Amazon.com Review: Creating an epic poem based on Homer and Odysseus seems a risky proposition for a modern poet, but Derek Walcott accomplishes the feat with stunning results in Omeros. The title, which is Homer's name in Greek, nods to the wandering [... more]
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The Arkansas Testament
Scintillating and rapturous: I gave this volume to a friend who had no experience of reading poetry (since school, that is), and had asked me what sort of poems he could start with. I pointed out a couple of poems that I thought were highlights, and [... more]
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The Bounty: Poems
Amazon.com Review: Poet Derek Walcott loves grand themes. In his award-winning epic poem, Omeros, he revisted Homer's The Iliad and The Odyssey, relocating them to the Caribbean and peopling them with the poor fishermen and colonials of his homeland. In [... more]
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Homage to Robert Frost
Amazon.com Review: Joseph Brodsky, Seamus Heaney, and Derek Walcott, Nobel laureates all, have written perceptive, affectionate, admiring essays on Robert Frost. Eschewing both of the prevailing caricatures of Frost (the irascible but beloved cracker- [... more]
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Conversations with Derek Walcott (Literary Conversations ...
Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 811 EAN: 9780878058556 ISBN: 0878058559 Number Of Pages: 228 Publication Date: 1996-04-01 [... more]
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The Prodigal: A Poem
A flock of commas: In the "Prodigal", the noble poet luareate, Walcott proves again he is a man of humble proportion with grand perspective. This landscape of memory lives in poignant hues. His flock of commas soar across stanzas of history. In [... more]
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Omeros
Amazon.com Review: Creating an epic poem based on Homer and Odysseus seems a risky proposition for a modern poet, but Derek Walcott accomplishes the feat with stunning results in Omeros. The title, which is Homer's name in Greek, nods to the wandering [... more]
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Collected Poems, 1948-1984
He didn't win a Nobel Prize for nothing: This cool dude uses language in a way no one else does. He redefines syntax, conventions, the way words are placed together, and forms a new interpretation of phrase-synthesis I can't even begin to describe. [... more]
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Homage to Robert Frost
Amazon.com Review: Joseph Brodsky, Seamus Heaney, and Derek Walcott, Nobel laureates all, have written perceptive, affectionate, admiring essays on Robert Frost. Eschewing both of the prevailing caricatures of Frost (the irascible but beloved cracker- [... more]
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