· In White Egrets, Derek Walcott 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 Brand: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. · Egrets, in this collection, are multitaskers. Walcott even refers to himself as an "egret-haired Viejo". And there is no need to shy away from the observation that egret is only one letter away Estimated Reading Time: 4 mins. · White Egrets is his fourteenth collection, the work of mature Walcott, stripped of any complication and obscurity, though that may be a personal reaction after my recent immersion in the recondite poetry of Friederike Mayröcker and Paul Celan. What is immediately evident is the unpretentious lucidity of his verse.
Untitled (no. 54) Derek Walcott. This page is a cloud between whose fraying edges. a headland with mountains appears brokenly. then is hidden again until what emerges. from the now cloudless blue is the grooved sea. and the whole self-naming island, its ochre verges, its shadow-plunged valleys and a coiled road. White Egrets by Derek Walcott. Poems from Derek Walcott's TS Eliot prize-shortlisted collection. Derek Walcott. Mon EST. Born in St Lucia in Derek Walcott(23 January ) Derek Walcott OBE OCC is a Saint Lucian poet, playwright, writer and visual artist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in and the T. S. Eliot Prize in for White Egrets. His works include the Homeric epic Omeros. Robert Graves wrote that Walcott "handles English with a closer understanding of.
1 White Egrets is Derek Walcott’s fourteenth collection of poems and is composed of 54 poems of varying lengths which address a number of themes and issues which recur constantly in Walcott’s poetry. It is a cosmopolitan collection with a broad thematic range, but a number of key Walcottian concerns crop up again and again like love, the demise of the British empire, the Caribbean landscape, Caribbean history and death. All the more striking, then, is Walcott’s new book, “White Egrets” — for it is both visionary, in the best sense of that word, and intensely personal, even autobiographical. It is an old. His later collections include Tiepolo’s Hound (), The Prodigal (), Selected Poems (), White Egrets (), and Morning, Paramin (). In , Walcott won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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