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Selected poems / Derek Walcott ; edited by Edward Baugh.

by Walcott, Derek.

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008.

Saint Lucian poetry (English)

Nobel Prize winners.

Saint Lucia -- Poetry.

West Indies -- Poetry.

Caribbean Area -- Poetry.

9780374260668 (hc.)

0374260664 (hc.)

9780374531119 (pbk.)

0374531110 (pbk.)

9780374260668 (hc.)

0374260664 (hc.)

Poems. Selections.

xvii, 307 p. ; 22 cm.

Originally published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, c2007.

from In a green night : poems, 1948-1960 (1962) -- from The castaway and other poems (1965) -- from The gulf and other poems (1969) -- from Another life (1973) -- from Sea grapes (1976) -- from The star-apple kingdom (1979) -- from The fortunate traveller (1981) -- from Midsummer (1984) -- from The Arkansas testament (1987) -- from Omeros (1990) -- from The bounty (1997) -- from Tiepolo's hound (2000) -- from The prodigal (2004).

"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, 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. Derek Alton Walcott was born in 1930 in Castries, Saint Lucia, in the West Indies. He is a Saint Lucian poet and playwright, and is currently Professor of poetry at the University of Essex"--Provided by publisher.

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1992 was awarded to Derek Walcott "for a poetic oeuvre of great luminosity, sustained by a historical vision, the outcome of a multicultural commitment."

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