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White Egrets. Derek Walcott (2011)

by Derek Walcott(Favorite Author)

4.19 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0571254748 (ISBN13: 9780571254743)

languge

English

genre

Poetry

publisher

Faber & Faber

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 "Spanish Series," a "Sicilian Suite." Walcott can write it as well as anybody, these poems of a sun made more brilliant by sharing the sky with clouds and a sea made more blue by sails. In poems that are formally married to the European tradition, he allows the lyrical language of his own background to burnish them so that they express a world without boundaries. His poems are filled with the sun and wind he describes letting that tradition absorb his vision. Here are poems explaining how the ... morewind makes music in shore grass. Here are poems that tell what happens when the tops of waves are frayed and fall back into themselves. Walcott writes the Mediterranean landscape and seascape by showing us that world of sun and wind and sky and sea beating at the horizons where they meet. The egrets of his imagination are poems stroking the same wind and reflecting the same sun in order to express a world we can embrace as known.
review 2: I came to Derek Walcott through his friendship with the playwright August Wilson, whose work I adore. After reading through White Egrets a couple of times I can certainly understand why Walcott inhabits the rarified air of the Nobel prize winner. He has an uncanny ability to pinpoint the spirit of a particular time and place, and his mastery of language is casually edifying. I feel effortlessly improved from just reading any given verse aloud. However, there is a distance to his work, a coldness that keeps me from loving it entirely. less

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