- Bib ID:
- 2931727
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Walcott, Derek
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Description:
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- New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1998
- 245 p. ; 23 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0374288410 (alkaline paper)
- Summary:
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What the Twilight Says collects Derek Walcott's essays from over twenty years. It includes Walcott's moving and insightful examinations of the paradoxes of Caribbean culture (including his noted Nobel Lecture), and his reckonings of the work and significance of such poets as Robert Lowell, Joseph Brodsky. Robert Frost, and Ted Hughes and of the novelists V.S. Naipaul and Patrick Chamoiseau. The book also contains Walcott's short story "Cafe Martinique," which traces the life of a colonial writer who is trapped in the values of the nineteenth century. What the Twilight Says reveals that Walcott is a writer whose prose has the same lyric power and syncretic intelligence that have made him one of the major poetic voices of our time.
- Full contents:
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- What the Twilight Says
- The Muse of History
- The Antilles: Fragments of Epic Memory
- On Robert Lowell
- On Hemingway
- C.L.R. James
- The Garden Path: V.S. Naipaul
- Magic Industry: Joseph Brodsky
- The Master of the Ordinary: Philip Larkin
- Ted Hughes
- Crocodile Dandy: Les Murray
- The Road Taken: Robert Frost
- A Letter to Chamoiseau
- Cafe Martinique: A Story.
- Subject:
- Essays -- 20th century
- Copyright:
-
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- Publication date:
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