Selected Poems (Paperback, First)

Drawing from every stage of the Nobel laureate's 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.

General

Imprint:	Farrar Straus Giroux
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	December 2007
First published:	December 2007
Authors:	Derek Walcott
Editors:	Edward Baugh
Dimensions:	208 x 140 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	336
Edition:	First
ISBN-13:	978-0-374-53111-9
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Poetry texts & anthologies > General
LSN:	0-374-53111-0
Barcode:	9780374531119

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