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Walcott, Derek

Overview
Works: 523 works in 1,180 publications in 24 languages and 42,313 library holdings
Genres: Drama 
Roles: Lyricist, Interviewee, Speaker, Signer, Other, Performer, Dedicatee, Librettist, Honoree, Director, Creator, Narrator
Classifications: pr9272.9.w3, 811
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18 editions published between and 1996 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,881 libraries worldwide
Includes most of the poems in each of Walcott's collections as selected by the poet, and the complete text of Another Life.
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53 editions published between and 2008 in 11 languages and held by 1,832 libraries worldwide
An interview with Derek Walcott on his epic poem Omeros and his writing. He also reads passages from Omeros.
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19 editions published between and 2010 in English and Spanish and held by 1,374 libraries worldwide
The Bounty opens with the title poem, a memorable elegy to Walcott's mother. It also contains a haunting series of poems evoking the poet's native ground, the island of St. Lucia.
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13 editions published between and 2006 in English and held by 1,245 libraries worldwide
"Do not diminish in my memory villages of absolutely no importance, ... Hoard, cherish your negligible existence, your unrecorded history of unambitious syntax, your clean pools of unpolluted light over close stones. The Prodigal is a journey through physical and mental landscapes, from Greenwich Village to the Alps, Pescara to Milan, Germany to Cartagena. But always in "the music of memory, water," abides St. Lucia, the author's birthplace, and the living sea. In his new work, Derek Walcott has created a sweeping yet intimate epic of an exhausted Europe studded with church spires and mountains, train stations and statuary, where the New World is an idea, a "wavering map," and where History subsumes the natural history of his "unimportantly beautiful" island home. Here, the wanderer fears that he has been tainted by his exile, that his life has become untranslatable, and that his craft itself is rooted in betrayal of the vivid archipelago to which, like Antaeus, he must return for the very sustenance of life." http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/hol053/2004005147.html.
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6 editions published between and 1997 in English and held by 1,082 libraries worldwide
Three modern poets look at Frost's work and legacy.
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25 editions published between and 2003 in English and held by 1,073 libraries worldwide
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16 editions published between and 1993 in English and Undetermined and held by 980 libraries worldwide
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18 editions published between and 2006 in English and French and held by 942 libraries worldwide
Derek Walcott reads poems from Arkansas testament.
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25 editions published between and 2008 in 3 languages and held by 909 libraries worldwide
"Derek Walcott's autobiographical poem, Another life, is a loving tribute to the island of his birth and to the people who shared the intimate experiences of his childhood. It is also a personal odyssey, amplified to almost eipic proportions by the extensive themes that encompass his native country and reach deeply into the culture of the New World" -- Cover.
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9 editions published between and 1999 in English and held by 887 libraries worldwide
The first collection of essays by the Nobel Laureate includes Walcott's moving and insightful examinations of the paradoxes of Caribbean culture, including his noted Nobel lecture, and his reckoning of the work and significance of such poets as Robert Lowell, Joseph Brodsky, Robert Frost, Seamus Heany, and Ted Hughes.
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4 editions published between and 2011 in English and held by 872 libraries worldwide
In this work, the poet treats the characteristic subjects of his career, the Caribbean's complex colonial legacy, his love of the Western literary tradition, the wisdom that comes through the passing of time, the always strange joys of new love, and the sometimes terrifying beauty of the natural world, with an intensity and drive that recall his greatest work. Through the mesmerizing repetition of theme and imagery, he creates an almost surflike cadence, broadening the possibilities of rhyme and meter, poetic form and language. This work is a moving new collection from one of the most important poets of the twentieth century, a celebration of the life and language of the West Indies. It is also a triumphant paean to beauty, love, art, and, perhaps most surprisingly, getting older.
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16 editions published between and 2004 in English and held by 836 libraries worldwide
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15 editions published between and 1993 in 5 languages and held by 807 libraries worldwide
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14 editions published between and 2003 in 3 languages and held by 756 libraries worldwide
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5 editions published between and 2008 in English and held by 687 libraries worldwide
Drawing from every stage of his career, Derek Walcott's Selected Poems brings together famous pieces from his early volumes, including "A Far Cry from Africa" and "A City's Death by Fire," with passages from the celebrated Omeros and selections from his latest major works, which extend his contributions to reenergizing the contemporary long poem. Here we find all of Walcott's essential themes, from grappling with the Caribbean's colonial legacy to his conflicted love of home and of Western literary tradition; from the wisdom-making pain of time and mortality to the strange wonder of love, the natural world, and what it means to be human. We see his lifelong labor at poetic crafts, his broadening of the possibilities of rhyme and meter, stanza forms, language, and metaphor. Edited and with an introduction by the Jamaican poet and critic Edward Baugh, this volume is a perfect representation of Walcott's breadth of work, spanning almost half a century. -Publisher description.
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13 editions published between and 2005 in English and Undetermined and held by 677 libraries worldwide
Albert Perez Jordan is a schoolmaster who lost his elder son in the 1970 Black Power uprising and who remains distressed by a political commitment he cannot understand. Unable to connect with his family or with his own past, Jordan finds himself divided between an older generation committed to tradition and a younger one playing at revolution.
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4 editions published in in English and held by 667 libraries worldwide
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9 editions published in in English and Undetermined and held by 587 libraries worldwide
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10 editions published between and 1995 in English and held by 568 libraries worldwide
 
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Collected poems, 1948-1984
Alternative Names

controlled identity Walcott, Derek

Walcott, Derek A. 1930-
Walcott, Derek Alton 1930-
Wālkūt, Dīrīk 1930-
ديريك والكوت، 1930 م-
والكوت، ديرك
デレク・ウォルコット
デレク・ウォルコット
والكوت، ديرك
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