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Omeros

Omeros more books like this

by Derek Walcott

Walcott's long (350-page) poem is a Caribbean variation on themes from Homer, written in terza rima.

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Dream on Monkey Mountain and Other Plays

Dream on Monkey Mountain and Other Plays more books like this

by Derek Walcott

On a Caribbean island, the morning after a full moon, Felix Hobain tears through the market in a drunken rage. Taken away to sober up in jail, all that night he is gripped by hallucinations: the impoverished hermit believes he has become a healer, walking from village to village, tending to the sick, waiting for a sign from God. In this dream, his ...

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Derek Walcott Collected Poems 1948-1984

Derek Walcott Collected Poems 1948-1984 more books like this

by Derek Walcott

This book includes most of the poems in each of Derek Walcott's seven collections, as selected by the poet, and the complete text of "Another Life" - a narrative poem of over four thousand lines that J.D. McClatchy, writing in "The New Republic," praised as "one of the best long autobiographical poems in English, with the narrative sweep, the ...

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Tiepolo's Hound

Tiepolo's Hound more books like this

by Derek Walcott

Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott was a painter before he was a poet, and though it was his poetic career that brought him fame, he never stopped painting. In this book-length poem, he reflects on the life that painting has given him, how it has forced him to engage with the visual world. The poem is illustrated by 25 full-color prints of his work.

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What the Twilight Says: Essays

What the Twilight Says: Essays more books like this

by Derek Walcott

Walcott's first collection of prose writings includes critical essays on 10 writers as diverse as Robert Lowell, Hemingway, and V. S. Naipaul, as well as meditations on Caribbean life and culture. It also includes his Nobel address, "The Antilles: Fragments of Epic Memory" and a short story.

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Three Plays: Juno and the Paycock, the Shadow of a Gunman, the Plow and the Stars

Three Plays: Juno and the Paycock, the Shadow of a Gunman, the Plow and the Stars more books like this

by Sean O'Casey, Derek Walcott (Photographer)

Three plays by Eugene O'Neill: "Desire Under the Elms," "Strange Interlude," and "Mourning Becomes Electra."

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The Arkansas Testament

The Arkansas Testament more books like this

by Derek Walcott

Walcott's eight collection of poems is divided into two parts -- "There," verse evoking the poet's native Carribbean, and "Elsewhere."

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The Antilles: Fragments of Epic Memory: The Nobel Lecture

The Antilles: Fragments of Epic Memory: The Nobel Lecture more books like this

by Derek Walcott

Derek Walcott was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature on December 10, 1992. His Nobel lecture is a stirring evocation of the multivalent wholeness of the culture of the Antilles, forged out of a violent history against a land- and seascape of immemorial dimensions. "Caribbean culture is not evolving but already shaped", writes Walcott. "Its ...

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Selected Poems

Selected Poems more books like this

by Derek Walcott, Edward Baugh (Editor)

Drawing from every stage of his 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.

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Homage to Robert Frost

Homage to Robert Frost more books like this

by Joseph Brodsky, Seamus Heaney, Derek Walcott

Three Nobel Prize-winning poets explore the mythologies that surround the controversial and misunderstood life of Robert Frost.

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The Odyssey: A Stage Version more books like this

by Derek Walcott

Episodes of the story of Odysseus' protracted wanderings from fallen Troy to his island home of Ithaca are pungently interspersed with a commentary by the blind singer Billy Blue. Proteus, the Old Man of the Sea, the giant Cyclops, Circe and her revellers, ghosts, and mermaids are among the cast. With its vast sweep and richly figurative language, ...

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The Bounty more books like this

by Derek Walcott

Opening with the title poem, a memorable elegy to the author's mother, "The Bounty" also contains a haunting series of poems which evoke the poet's native ground, the island of St. Lucia.

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Midsummer more books like this

by Derek Walcott

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The Haitian Trilogy: Plays: Henri Christophe, Drums and Colours, and the Haytian Earth more books like this

by Derek Walcott

Plays by the Nobel-laureate, brought together for the first timeIn the history plays that comprise "The Haitian Trilogy"--"Henri Christophe, Drums and Colours" and "The Haytian Earth"--Derek Walcott, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, uses verse to tell the story of his native West Indies as a four-hundred-year cycle of war, conquest and ...

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The Prodigal: A Poem more books like this

by Derek Walcott

In this long epic poem, Nobelist Derek Walcott writes about a wanderer who makes his way across Europe, up and down America's east coast, and always--in his mind and heart and, at last, for real--to his native St. Lucia, where Walcott himself was born. In the course of the poem, Walcott returns constantly to the themes of mortality and memory as ...

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Conversations with Derek Walcott more books like this

by William Baer (Editor), Derek Walcott

Collections of interviews with notable modern writers

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Latin American Writers at Work more books like this

by Paris Review (Creator), George Plimpton (Editor), Derek Walcott (Introduction by)

The fourth book in the Modern Library's "Paris Review" Writers at Work series, this is a thundering collection of interviews with some of the most important and acclaimed Latin American writers of our time.

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Star Apple Kingdom more books like this

by Derek Walcott

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Another life more books like this

by Derek Walcott

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The Fortunate Traveller more books like this

by Derek Walcott

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Walker and Ghost Dance more books like this

by Derek Walcott

Dazzling dramas on American themes from the Nobel laureateOn a cold winter's day on the Dakota plains, Catherine Weldon receives a caller, Kicking Bear, bringing news of Indian rebellion. In the fort nearby, a tiny community splinters apart over how to react. In "Ghost Dance," first performed in 1989, Walcott turns a story with a foregone ...

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The Joker of Seville & O Babylon!: Two Plays more books like this

by Derek Walcott

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Collected poems 1948-1984 more books like this

by Derek Walcott

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The Bounty: Poems more books like this

by Derek Walcott

Opening with the title poem, a memorable elegy to the author's mother, "The Bounty" also contains a haunting series of poems which evoke the poet's native ground, the island of St. Lucia.

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Collected Poems of Derek Walcott more books like this

by Derer Walcott, Derek Walcott

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