Derek Walcott, Author . Farrar, Straus & Giroux $18 (112p) ISBN 978-0-374-23743-1
Travelogue, elegy, autobiography and lush description mingle and merge in the prolific Nobel laureate's latest book-length poem. Walcott (Omeros
; Tiepolo's Hound
; etc.) has long specialized in poems about places and journeys, and the first
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Derek Walcott, Author . Farrar, Straus & Giroux $24 (86p) ISBN 978-0-374-28929-4
From Nobel Prize–winner Walcott comes a 14th collection of poems, richly textured in sound and image, and spanning many countries and memories. From his native Caribbean to Italy, Spain, England, the Netherlands, and the United States, Walcott
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Derek Walcott, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $30 (325p) ISBN 978-0-374-22591-9
This magnificent modern epic by poet-playwright Walcott ( The Arkansas Testament ) follows the wanderings of a present-day Odysseus and the inconsolable sufferings of those who are displaced and traveling with trepidation toward their homes. Written
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Derek Walcott, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $30 (208p) ISBN 978-0-374-10587-7
After writing the Odyssey of his native St. Lucia with Omeros (1990), the epic poem that helped earn him the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature, Walcott has increasingly sought to sensualize the Caribbean landscape within the competing contexts of...
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Derek Walcott, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $18 (0p) ISBN 978-0-374-11556-2
A prime aged Porterhouse steak, four times as thick as this slim volume and served with butter and pate, would not match the rich density of this new collection, the Nobel laureate's first since his epic Omeros. Walcott's lines are marbled with...
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Derek Walcott, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $23 (240p) ISBN 978-0-374-28841-9
In essays originally published between 1970 and 1997, Walcott, winner of a Nobel prize in 1992 for his poetry and plays (Omeros, The Bounty), engages with literature, politics and their intersection. This is Walcott's first prose collection but the...
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Derek Walcott, Author, Edward Baugh, Editor , edited by Edward Baugh. Farrar, Straus & Giroux $25 (307p) ISBN 978-0-374-26066-8
This career-spannning retrospective, culled from nearly 50 years of work, will go a long way toward reminding readers of the breadth and depth of Nobel laureate Walcott's achievement. Though he is perhaps best known for his modern epic, Omeros
,
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