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Jill Paterson (1/16/2007 8:28:00 PM)
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I must say that Derek Walcott unlocks a different door in Caribbean poetry. Not only does he expose our history and heritage but he does so with an ornate yet down-to-earth artisitc style. I have studied Olive Senior and Martin Carter not to mention his greatest 'oponent' Edward Brathwaite and somehow Walcott's poems tend to offer a more captivating appeal.
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Simone Solon (3/16/2005 7:57:00 AM)
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I've only just discovered Derek Walcott and it is such a pleasure to come across a poet of this calibre that I haven't read before. I don't understand half of it - but that's half the wonder of it!
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"Statistics justify and scholars seize
The salients of colonial policy.
What is that to the white child hacked in bed?
To savages, expendable as Jews?" |
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Derek Walcott (b. 1930), Carribbean poet. A Far Cry from Africa (l. 7-10). . .
Collected Poems, 1948-1984 [Derek Walcott]. (1986) Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
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"A wind is ruffling the tawny pelt
Of Africa. Kikuyu, quick as flies,
Batten upon the bloodstreams of the veldt." |
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Derek Walcott (b. 1930), Carribbean poet. A Far Cry from Africa (l. 1-3). . .
Collected Poems, 1948-1984 [Derek Walcott]. (1986) Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
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