The Prodigal - A Poem (Paperback)

"The Prodigal" is a journey through physical and mental landscapes, from Greenwich Village to the Alps, Pescara to Milan, Germany to Cartagena. But always in "the music of memory, water," abides St. Lucia, the author's birthplace, and the living sea. In his new work, Derek Walcott has created a sweeping yet intimate epic of an exhausted Europe studded with church spires and mountains, train stations and statuary, where the New World is an idea, a "wavering map," and where History subsumes the natural history of his "unimportantly beautiful" island home. Here, the wanderer fears that he has been tainted by his exile, that his life has become untranslatable, and that his craft itself is rooted in betrayal of the vivid archipelago to which, like Antaeus, he must return for the very sustenance of life.

General

Imprint:	Farrar Straus Giroux
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	March 2006
First published:	March 2006
Authors:	Derek Walcott
Dimensions:	210 x 139 x 9mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	105
ISBN-13:	978-0-374-53016-7
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Poetry texts & anthologies > General
LSN:	0-374-53016-5
Barcode:	9780374530167

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