Winner of the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature, the prolific Walcott
has also won the Queen's Medal for Poetry, the Guinness Award for
Poetry, and a Royal Society of Literature Award, among many other
honors. He was the recipient of a five-year fellowship from the
MacArthur Foundation and is an Honorary Member of the American
Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. A native of St. Lucia,
West Indies, he continues to make his home there, and teaches at
Boston University during the academic year. He is the founder of
the Trinidad Theater Workshop. The New York Shakespeare Festival
and the Negro Ensemble Company have produced his plays, one of
which won an Obie Award. He has published nearly 20 books of poetry
and co-authored, with Joseph Brodsky and Seamus Heaney, a
collection of essays honoring Robert Frost. The present volume, a
book-length narrative poem composed entirely of couplets, follows
the interwoven journeys of Walcott himself and fellow Caribbean
Camille Pissaro, an artist who left the islands in the latter half
of the 19th century to study painting in France. Their voyages are
studies in impressionism, when `all was paint and the light in
paint.` Even when he has set aside the artist's brush and taken up
the poet's pen, Walcott can `still smell linseed oil in the wild
views of villages.` And in presenting the biographical details of
Pissaro's life, he gives us their essence, not merely the `walled
facts.`Walcott has the ability to reconcile European and island
influences in a way that is enriching to both cultures. An artist
himself, his painterly techniques are brought to bear in this
masterful, lavish, and detailed work. (Kirkus Reviews)
A magnificent, semi-autobiographical sequence from a Nobel
Prize-winning poet, Tiepolo's Hound joins the quests of two
Caribbean men: Camille Pissarro - a Sephardic Jew born in 1830 who
leaves his native St. Thomas to become a painter in Paris - and the
poet himself, who longs to rediscover the detail of a painting
encountered on an early visit from St. Lucia to New York. Published
with 25 full-colour reproductions of Derek Walcott's own paintings,
the poem is at once the spiritual biography of a great artist in
self-imposed exile, a history in verse of Impressionist painting,
and a memoir of the poet's desire to catch the visual world in more
than words.
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