{"product_id":"the-poetry-of-derek-walcott-1948-2013-73057","title":"The Poetry of Derek Walcott 1948-2013","description":"\u003cp\u003eA collection spanning the whole of Derek Walcott's celebrated, inimitable, essential career\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"He gives us more than himself or 'a world'; he gives us a sense of infinity embodied in the language.\" Alongside Joseph Brodsky's words of praise one might mention the more concrete honors that the renowned poet Derek Walcott has received: a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship; the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry; the Nobel Prize in Literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAcross 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46516476018824,"sku":"73057","price":1800.0,"currency_code":"EGP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/5421\/0440\/files\/9780374537579.jpg?v=1790084059","url":"https:\/\/bookspotonline.com\/products\/the-poetry-of-derek-walcott-1948-2013-73057","provider":"The BookSpot","version":"1.0","type":"link"}