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White egrets
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- Book Synopsis
- In White Egrets, Derek Walcott treats his characteristic subjects - the Caribbean's complex colonial legacy, the Western artistic tradition, the blessings and withholdings of old Europe (Andalucia, the Mezzogiorno, Amsterdam), the unaccomodating sublime of the new world, time's cunning passages, the poet's place in all of this - with a passionate intensity and drive that recall his greatest work. Through the systolic and mesmerizing repetition of theme and imagery, Walcott carries his surf-like cadence from poem to poem, and from sequence to sequence in this celebratory and close-knit collection.
- About The Author
- Derek Walcott was born in St Lucia, in the West Indies, in 1930. The author of many plays and books of poetry, including Omeros (1990) and White Egrets (2010), he was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 1988, and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1992. He died in 2017.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9780571254743
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber, (27 January 2011)
- Number of Pages
- 89
- Weight
- 100 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 199 x 132 x 7 mm
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