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Collected poems, 1948-1984 / Derek Walcott.

By:

Walcott, Derek

Publication details: New York : Farrar, Straus & Giroux , 1986.Edition: 1st edDescription: 515 p. ; 23 cmISBN:

9780374520250

Uniform titles:

Poems . Selections

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

811 WAL

LOC classification:

PR9272.9.W3 A17 1986

Awards:

Nobel Prize winner

Summary: Walcott has written nine books of poetry, beginning with 25 Poems (printed in St. Lucia in 1948) and ending with Midsummer. In Collected Poems, Walcott offers us generous selections from all his books, especially Sea Grapes, and he adds the entire text of Another Life (1974), his autobiography in verse and a tribute to the formative influences of the island of St. Lucia. Walcott is a superb stylist who leaves his signature in complex chains of imagery: ``The rain falls like knives/ on the kitchen floor./ The sky's heavy drawer was pulled out too suddenly.'' Collected Poems will certainly rank as one of the important poetry titles of 1986, and no poetry collection will be complete without it.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	811 WAL (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Material retirado/oculto del Opac		066958

Includes bibliography and index.

Walcott has written nine books of poetry, beginning with 25 Poems (printed in St. Lucia in 1948) and ending with Midsummer. In Collected Poems, Walcott offers us generous selections from all his books, especially Sea Grapes, and he adds the entire text of Another Life (1974), his autobiography in verse and a tribute to the formative influences of the island of St. Lucia. Walcott is a superb stylist who leaves his signature in complex chains of imagery: ``The rain falls like knives/ on the kitchen floor./ The sky's heavy drawer was pulled out too suddenly.'' Collected Poems will certainly rank as one of the important poetry titles of 1986, and no poetry collection will be complete without it.

Nobel Prize winner

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