White Egrets: Poems

by Derek Walcott

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A DAZZLING NEW COLLECTION FROM ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT POETS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY In White Egrets, Derek Walcott treats the characteristic subjects of his career-the Caribbean''s complex colonial legacy, his love of the Western literary traditi... Read more

A DAZZLING NEW COLLECTION FROM ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT POETS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

In White Egrets, Derek Walcott treats the characteristic subjects of his career-the Caribbean''s complex colonial legacy, his love of the Western literary tradition, the wisdom that comes through the passing of time, the always strange joys of new love, and the sometimes terrifying beauty of the natural world-with an intensity and drive that recall his greatest work. Through the mesmerizing repetition of theme and imagery, Walcott creates an almost surflike cadence, broadening the possibilities of rhyme and meter, poetic form and language.

White Egrets is a moving new collection from one of the most important poets of the twentieth century-a celebration of the life and language of the West Indies. It is also a triumphant paean to beauty, love, art, and-perhaps most surprisingly-getting older.

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Book Details

File size8.5 X 5.5 X 0.23 in
Print pages96
PublisherFarrar, Straus And Giroux
Publication date March 15, 2011
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780374532703
Derek Walcott (1930-2017) was born in St. Lucia, the West Indies, in 1930. His Collected Poems: 1948-1984 was published in 1986, and his subsequent works include a book-length poem, Omeros (1990); a c...

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