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008			121106s1986 nyu b 001 0 eng
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050	0	0	_aPR9272.9.W3 _bA17 1986
082	0	0	_a811 WAL
100	1		_aWalcott, Derek
240	1	0	_aPoems _k. Selections
245	1	0	_aCollected poems, 1948-1984 _c/ Derek Walcott.
250			_a1st ed.
260			_aNew York _b: Farrar, Straus & Giroux _c, 1986.
300			_a515 p. _c; 23 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliography and index.
520			_aWalcott 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.
586			_aNobel Prize winner
650		4	_aEnglish poetry _y-20th century
651		4	_aSt. Lucia
942			_cMO
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