Collected Poems 1948-1984
A collection of poems from the early to middle period. Incorporating regional characteristics, history, and personal memories, she poetically develops a postcolonial perspective.
Work Information
A collection of poems from the early to middle period. Incorporating regional characteristics, history, and personal mem…
A poet from the Caribbean. He expressed colonialism and cultural identity through poetry.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Farrar Straus & Giroux
- Published
- 1986-01-01
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 16.51 x 4.32 x 21.84 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780374126261
- ISBN-10
- 0374126267
- Price
- 38469 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Poetry/Caribbean & Latin American
This retrospective collection includes most of the poems from each of the poet's previous books, as selected by the poet, and the complete text of "Another Life," a long narrative poem
Derek Walcott was born in St. Lucia in 1930. He is the author of thirteen collections of poetry, seven collections of plays, and a book of essays. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1992.
Reviews
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A class in its own
Second hand book arrived on time, as described. Over 500 pages of poetry, by a legend - it's quality!
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Ok
Ok
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Sand and the sound of the waves.
When you read Derek Walcott you cannot help but be dragged into his world. It is not a world where you sit on the beach, drink a beer and listen to Jimmy Buffett all day. Instead, it is a world where life is hard. You live in a place where nature is indeed beautiful but at times unforgiving. The sun cooks you, the sand chafes you and the water drains you. In this book of collected poems, Walcott has some of his more famous poems along with relatively unknown ones. Some are like the Iliad, some are strange and need deep introspection. Either way, they all touch some part of your psyche. It is obvious that he has won so many prizes for his work, least of all the Nobel Prize. It is accessible and deep all at the same time. Good poets guide us in the story, we take what we can and allow ourselves to open up and understand the beauty of the work. Walcott is a master of the tour. ----------------------------------- Excerpt from "Egypt, Tobago" There is a shattered palm on this fierce shore, its plumes the rusting helm- et of a dead warrior. Numb Antony, in the torpor stretching her inert sex near him like a sleeping cat, knows his heart is the real desert. Over the dunes of her heaving, to his heart's drumming fades the mirage of the legions, across love-tousled sheets, the triremes fading. Ar the carved door of her temple a fly wrings its message. He brushes a damp hair away from an ear as perfect as a sleeping child's. He stares, inert, the fallen column. He lies like a copper palm tree at three in the afternoon by a hot sea and a river, in Egypt, Tobago Her salt marsh dries in the heat where he foundered without armor. He exchanged an empire for her beads of sweat, the uproar of arenas, the changing surf of senators, for this silent ceiling over silent sand - this grizzled bear, whose fur, moulting, is silvered - for this quick fox with her sweet stench. By sleep dismembered, his head is in Egypt, his feet in Rome, his groin a desert trench with its dead soldier. ----------------------------------- Highly recommended. Thank you for reading my review.
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Buy it!
If you are a lover of poetry, you won’t be Disappointed. A great book to add to your collection or give as a gift.
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grand
beautiful writer, and an admirable collection of the writer's back catalogue, but sometimes it can be a bit difficult to differentiate between sections of time and books. arrived in decent time, as described, good purchase