02572cam a2200325 i 4500 344293388 TxAuBib 20180425120000.0 170419s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780374537579 25.00 0374537577 25.00 eng rda TxAuBib rda Walcott, Derek. Poems Selections. The poetry of Derek Walcott 1948-2013 [BOOK] / Derek Walcott ; selected by Glyn Maxwell. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017. xiii, 617 pages ; 23 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes index. From 25 Poems -- From Epitaph for the Young: XII Cantos -- From Poems -- From In a Green Night -- From The Castaway -- From The Gulf -- From Another Life -- From Sea Grapes -- From The Star-Apple Kingdom -- From The Fortunate Traveller -- From Midsummer -- From The Arkansas Testament -- From The Bounty -- From Tiepolo's Hound -- From The Prodigal -- From White Egrets. The Poetry of Derek Walcott 1948-2013 draws from every stage of the poet's storied career. Here are examples of his very earliest work, like "In My Eighteenth Year," published when the poet himself was still a teenager; his first widely celebrated verse, like "A Far Cry from Africa," which speaks of violence, of loyalties divided in one's very blood; his mature work, like "The Schooner Flight" from The Star-Apple Kingdom; and his late masterpieces, like the tender "Sixty Years After," from the 2010 collection White Egrets. Across sixty-five years, Walcott grapples with the themes that have defined his work as they have defined his life: the unsolvable riddle of identity; the painful legacy of colonialism on his native Caribbean island of St. Lucia; the mysteries of faith and love and the natural world; the Western canon, celebrated and problematic; the trauma of growing old, of losing friends, family, one's own memory. This collection, selected by Walcott's friend the English poet Glyn Maxwell, will prove as enduring as the questions, the passions, that have driven Walcott to write for more than half a century. Provided by publisher. 20180425. English poetry 20th century. English poetry 21st century. Poetry. Saint Lucian poetry (English.) Maxwell, Glyn, 1962-