WALCOTT DEREK (NOBEL 1992)

ΓΟΥΟΛΚΟΤ: ΠΟΙΗΜΑΤΑ
Όταν ο Ντέρεκ Ουόλκοτ πήρε το Βραβείο Νόμπελ το 1992, η Σουηδική Ακαδημία χαρακτήρισε το έργο του «ποιητικό, πολύ φωτεινό, που βασίζεται σ' ένα ιστορικό όραμα, αποτέλεσμα ενός πολύ-πολιτισμικού κατορθώματος». Η γλώσσα του είναι τοπική, αλλά η οπτική του είναι παγκόσμια κι αυτό το ποιητικό εύρος του επιτρέπει να συνδυάζει και συγχρόνως να συμπτύσσει την αγάπη του για την Καραϊβική με φαινομενικά άσχετα μεταξύ τους γεγονότα, όπως η φρίκη του Ολοκαυτώματος ή η γοητεία που ασκούσε επάνω του ο «ασημένιος αιώνας» της ρωσικής ποίησης ή η Ελλάδα τ...
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(P/B) SELECTED POEMS
This new "Selected Poems" offers for the first time a portable and lucidly ordered retrospective of the fertile career of Derek Walcott, spanning six decades and drawing on twelve collections. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992, Walcott has, in the words of Seamus Heaney, "moved with gradually deepening confidence to found his own poetic domain, independent of the tradition he inherited yet not altogether orphaned from it". The new "Selected Poems", edited by Edward Baugh, provides a map of a domain that is at once parish and...
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(P/B) THE POETRY OF DEREK WALCOTT 1948-2013
The 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. Across sixty-fiv...
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(P/B) OMEROS
Omeros is the Greek name for Homer and though Derek Walcott's protagonists, Achille and Philoctete, are simple fishermen, they and their tribulations take on the specific gravity and resonance of their mythic Greek namesakes. Walcott's magnificent poem charts both the visible history of events and the interior, unwritten epic fashioned from the suffering of the individual in exile. (From the publisher)...
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(H/B) MORNING, PARAMIN
Nobel Prize-winner Derek Walcott is the world's most eminent living poet; Peter Doig the world's most coveted living painter. Through a long-standing friendship and creative affinity the two great artists have collaborated to produce a stunning full-colour book of fifty paintings and original poems in response to those paintings. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) WHITE EGRETS
In White Egrets , Derek Walcott treats his characteristic subjects - the Caribbean’s complex colonial legacy, the Western artistic tradition, the blessings and withholdings of old Europe (Andalucia, the Mezzogiorno, Amsterdam), the unaccomodating sublime of the new world, time’s cunning passages, the poet’s place in all of this - with a passionate intensity and drive that recall his greatest work. Through the systolic and mesmerizing repetition of theme and imagery, Walcott carries his surf-like cadence from poem to poem, and from sequence...
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(P/B) THE PRODIGAL
The Prodigal, Derek Walcott's latest collection, is a dazzling odyssey for the twenty-first century. 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 about his own sense of abandonment, whether to leave a place is to lose it. The Prodigal is a compelling steer between exile and belonging, Europe and the New World, wanderlust and the inevitable pull of home. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) COLLECTED POEMS 1948-1984
This book contains most of the poems from Derek Walcott’s first seven collections. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Walcott amply demonstrates his right to be considered one of the great poets of the age. (From the publisher) «This is a triumphant book» (Seamus Heaney) «The best poet the English language has today» (Joseph Brodsky)...
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(H/B) WHITE EGRETS
In White Egrets, Derek Walcott treats his characteristic subjects - the Caribbean’s complex colonial legacy, the Western artistic tradition, the blessings and withholdings of old Europe (Andalucia, the Mezzogiorno, Amsterdam), the unaccomodating sublime of the new world, time’s cunning passages, the poet’s place in all of this - with a passionate intensity and drive that recall his greatest work. Through the systolic and mesmerizing repetition of theme and imagery, Walcott carries his surf-like cadence from poem to poem, and from sequence ...
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