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Item specifics
- Condition
- ISBN
- 9780374526832
- Book Title
- What the Twilight Says : Essays
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus & Giroux
- Item Length
- 8.5 in
- Edition
- 1
- Publication Year
- 1999
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.6 in
- Genre
- Literary Collections
- Topic
- Essays
- Item Weight
- 10.9 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.5 in
- Number of Pages
- 256 Pages
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN-10
0374526834
ISBN-13
9780374526832
eBay Product ID (ePID)
501610
Product Key Features
Edition
1
Book Title
What the Twilight Says : Essays
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1999
Topic
Essays
Genre
Literary Collections
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
10.9 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
21
Reviews
"There is no one writing in English at present who can join power with delicacy the way Walcott can." -- Sven Birkerts, The New Republic "Walcott is a kingfisher critic, with flashing insights, an original who writes a profound, poetic prose . . . Derek Walcott's words go from strength to strength." -- Paula Burnett, The Times (London), "There is no one writing in English at present who can join power with delicacy the way Walcott can."--Sven Birkerts,The New Republic "Walcott is a kingfisher critic, with flashing insights, an original who writes a profound, poetic prose . . . Derek Walcott's words go from strength to strength."--Paula Burnett,The Times (London), "There is no one writing in English at present who can join power with delicacy the way Walcott can."--Sven Birkerts, The New Republic "Walcott is a kingfisher critic, with flashing insights, an original who writes a profound, poetic prose . . . Derek Walcott's words go from strength to strength."--Paula Burnett, The Times (London), Walcott is a kingfisher critic, with flashing insights, an original who writes a profound, poetic prose . . . Derek Walcott's words go from strength to strength.
Dewey Decimal
814
Table Of Content
I What the Twilight Says The Muse of History The Antilles: Fragments of Epic Memory II On Robert Lowell On Hemingway C. L. R. James The Garden Path: V. S. Naipaul Magic Industry: Joseph Brodsky The Master of the Ordinary: Philip Larkin Ted Hughes Crocodile Dandy: Les Murray The Road Taken: Robert Frost A Letter to Chamoiseau III Café Martinique: A Story
Synopsis
The first collection of essays by the Nobel laureate Derek Walcott, What the Twilight Says, drawn from pieces originally published in The New York Review of Books, The New Republic , and elsewhere. This collection forms a volume of remarkable elegance, concision, and brilliance. It includes Walcott's moving and insightful examinations of the paradoxes of Caribbean culture, his Nobel lecture, and his reckoning of the work and significance of such poets as Robert Lowell, Joseph Brodsky, Robert Frost, Les Murray, and Ted Hughes, and of prose writers such as V. S. Naipaul and Patrick Chamoiseau. On every subject he takes up, Walcott the essayist brings to bear the lyric power and syncretic intelligence that made him one of the major poetic voices of our time., The first collection of essays by the Nobel laureate. Derek Walcott has been publishing essays in The New York Review of Books, The New Republic , and elsewhere for more than twenty years. What the Twilight Says collects these pieces to form a volume of remarkable elegance, concision, and brilliance. It includes Walcott's moving and insightful examinations of the paradoxes of Caribbean culture, his Nobel lecture, and his reckoning of the work and significance of such poets as Robert Lowell, Joseph Brodsky, Robert Frost, Les Murray, and Ted Hughes, and of prose writers such as V. S. Naipaul and Patrick Chamoiseau. On every subject he takes up, Walcott the essayist brings to bear the lyric power and syncretic intelligence that have made him one of the major poetic voices of our time.
LC Classification Number
PR9272.9.W3 W48 1999
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