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Selected Poems by Walcott, Derek
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- ISBN
- 9780374531119
- Book Title
- Selected Poems
- Item Length
- 8.3in
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus & Giroux
- Publication Year
- 2007
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.9in
- Genre
- Poetry
- Topic
- Caribbean & Latin American, General
- Item Width
- 5.5in
- Item Weight
- 13.1 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 336 Pages
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Drawing from every stage of the Nobel laureate's 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, which extend his contributions to reenergizing the contemporary long poem. Here we find all of Walcott's essential themes, from grappling with the Caribbean's colonial legacy to his conflicted love of home and of Western literary tradition; from the wisdom-making pain of time and mortality to the strange wonder of love, the natural world, and what it means to be human. We see his lifelong labor at poetic crafts, his broadening of the possibilities of rhyme and meter, stanza forms, language, and metaphor. Edited and with an introduction by the Jamaican poet and critic Edward Baugh, this volume is a perfect representation of Walcott's breadth of work, spanning almost half a century.
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN-10
0374531110
ISBN-13
9780374531119
eBay Product ID (ePID)
61169762
Product Key Features
Book Title
Selected Poems
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Caribbean & Latin American, General
Publication Year
2007
Genre
Poetry
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.3in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
13.1 Oz
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"The magnitude of Walcott's achievement . . . is on lavish display in his updated Selected Poems , which spans a half-century of his protean output and highlights the formal prowess of the progressively ambitious work he's produced over the last twenty years . . . confirming the incantatory powers of an oracle the likes of which the New World hasn't seen since Prospero drowned his book." --David Barber, The Boston Globe " Selected Poems allows us the rare pleasure of tracing a long career, a full life . . . Timeless in [its] magic and cumulative power . . . Luminous [and] engaging." --Richard Wakefield, The Seattle Times, "The magnitude of Walcott's achievement . . . is on lavish display in his updated Selected Poems , which spans a half-century of his protean output and highlights the formal prowess of the progressively ambitious work he's produced over the last twenty years . . . confirming the incantatory powers of an oracle the likes of which the New World hasn't seen since Prospero drowned his book." -David Barber, The Boston Globe " Selected Poems allows us the rare pleasure of tracing a long career, a full life . . . Timeless in [its] magic and cumulative power . . . Luminous [and] engaging." -Richard Wakefield, The Seattle Times, Â"The magnitude of Walcott's achievement . . . is on lavish display in his updatedSelected Poems, which spans a half-century of his protean output and highlights the formal prowess of the progressively ambitious work he's produced over the last twenty years . . . confirming the incantatory powers of an oracle the likes of which the New World hasn't seen since Prospero drowned his book.Â" Â--David Barber,TheBostonGlobe Â"Selected Poemsallows us the rare pleasure of tracing a long career, a full life . . . Timeless in [its] magic and cumulative power . . . Luminous [and] engaging.Â" Â--Richard Wakefield,TheSeattleTimes, Selected Poems allows us the rare pleasure of tracing a long career, a full life . . . Timeless in [its] magic and cumulative power . . . Luminous [and] engaging., The magnitude of Walcott's achievement . . . is on lavish display in his updated Selected Poems , which spans a half-century of his protean output and highlights the formal prowess of the progressively ambitious work he's produced over the last twenty years . . . confirming the incantatory powers of an oracle the likes of which the New World hasn't seen since Prospero drowned his book., "The magnitude of Walcott's achievement . . . is on lavish display in his updated Selected Poems, which spans a half-century of his protean output and highlights the formal prowess of the progressively ambitious work he's produced over the last twenty years . . . confirming the incantatory powers of an oracle the likes of which the New World hasn't seen since Prospero drowned his book." -David Barber, The Boston Globe "Selected Poems allows us the rare pleasure of tracing a long career, a full life . . . Timeless in [its] magic and cumulative power . . . Luminous [and] engaging." -Richard Wakefield, The Seattle Times, "The magnitude of Walcott's achievement . . . is on lavish display in his updatedSelected Poems, which spans a half-century of his protean output and highlights the formal prowess of the progressively ambitious work he's produced over the last twenty years . . . confirming the incantatory powers of an oracle the likes of which the New World hasn't seen since Prospero drowned his book." --David Barber,TheBostonGlobe "Selected Poemsallows us the rare pleasure of tracing a long career, a full life . . . Timeless in [its] magic and cumulative power . . . Luminous [and] engaging." --Richard Wakefield,TheSeattleTimes, "The magnitude of Walcott's achievement . . . is on lavish display in his updated Selected Poems , which spans a half-century of his protean output and highlights the formal prowess of the progressively ambitious work he's produced over the last twenty years . . . confirming the incantatory powers of an oracle the likes of which the New World hasn't seen since Prospero drowned his book." -- David Barber, The Boston Globe " Selected Poems allows us the rare pleasure of tracing a long career, a full life . . . Timeless in [its] magic and cumulative power . . . Luminous [and] engaging." -- Richard Wakefield, The Seattle Times
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