Books by Derek Walcott
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English
review 1: One star is what I'd have given myself as a reader of White Egrets first time around; fortunately on this second outing I find myself on firmer footing. I don't think I've come across another book to which the word "painterly" so aptly applies: "Light frames itself in little squa...
language
English
review 1: Derek Walcott, a Caribbean poet, writes well about the sea, sun, wind, and long lines where the sky seems rubbled by clouds. But in White Egrets, though the poems carry some of those same Caribbean genes, he's writing about the Mediterranean world. So here's an Italian group, a...