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.
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