There are two currents of history in the author's poem, the visible history charted in events - the tribal losses of the American Indian and the tragedy of African enslavement - and the interior, unwr...
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Omeros er skrevet på et forrygende energisk, smukt og charmerende kreoler-engelsk. Bogens titel henviser til de syv have, der omgiver øen St. Lucia i Caribien. Langdigtets handling foregår i vores dag...
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Beginning on America's East Coast, the poem journeys restlessly through the European continent, exploring the inheritance of the Old World upon Walcott's native St Lucia, and sees the poet wondering a...
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An odyssey for the twenty-first century. Beginning on America's East Coast, this poem journeys restlessly through the European continent, exploring the inheritance of the Old World upon Walcott's nati...
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A selection of the poetry of Derek Walcott, winner of the 1992 Nobel Prize for Literature. The nature of memory and the creative imagination, the history, politics and landscape of the West Indies, Wa...
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My calling as a poet is votive, sacred, out-dated, if you will, but it was a cherished vow taken in my young dead father's name, and my life is to honor that vow. I believe this through all adversarie...
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"Tiepolo's Hound" joins the quests of two Caribbean men: Camille Pisarro, who leaves his native St Thomas to follow his vocation as a painter in Paris; and the poet himself, longing to rediscover a de...
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