Selected Poems

Derek Walcott (author), Edward Baugh (editor)

Paperback (26 Dec 2007)

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Publisher's Synopsis

Drawing from every stage of his career, this volume collects selected poems from Nobel Prize winner Derek Walcott's lifetime of work.

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 later 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.

Book information

ISBN:	9780374531119
Publisher:	Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Imprint:	Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub date:	26 Dec 2007
DEWEY:	811.54
Language:	English
Number of pages:	336
Weight:	417g
Height:	208mm
Width:	140mm
Spine width:	23mm