Derek Walcott
Birth date: January 23, 1930
Derek Walcott's Books
This is only a small collection but somehow it seems to have within it nearly everything I hoped for. Walcott is such a confident, fluent poet. I can read his opening poem – The Lighthouse – across more than five full pages and only later notice the technique, especially his [near] rhyming of alter...
This is a long narrative poem, and usually called an epic; I would call it that except that I no longer have any idea what an epic is. It has no single hero, even though one of its characters, Achille, very nearly is one; the author is consciously considering the form of heroic tales. Parts of it se...
Saint LuciaThis book-length poem in sections, most in blank verse (iambic pentameter or a foot or two more per line), ranges across countries, moods, and relationships to create a memoir/travelogue spanning time and continents. Walcott always turns a pretty phrase; here, I admire his use of repetiti...
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