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Title: Collected Poems, 1948-1984 by Derek Walcott ISBN: 0-374-52025-9 Publisher: Noonday Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 1987 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A true Caribbean Genius
Comment: ...i firmly believe he has reperesented the caribbean in a way no- one has ever done before. Derek Walcott's diction and his superb metaphors are yet to be seen in any other caribbean poet. Yet, like the jamaican reggae superstar Bob Marley, Walcott has used his art in such a way that the whole world can identify with his work. His development of major themes such as alienation and cultural identity, Caribbean history , society and development and the pOst colonial era truly represents the region in a realistic way. His poems are truly inspirational and representative of the Caribbean. Walcott's poems are a reseviour for any historian who wishes to know about the history of the Caribbean. One shoud note that Walcott has not only used the english language in his poems but he has created the rhyme and rhythm in such a way to achieve a Caribbean creole(See "Parades Parades"), thus firmly establishing his identity as a caribbean poet and writer.IN CONCLUSION, Walcott is a true genius and we in the caribbean are proud of him.
Rating: 5
Summary: He didn't win a Nobel Prize for nothing
Comment: This cool dude uses language in a way no one else does. He redefines syntax, conventions, the way words are placed together, and forms a new interpretation of phrase-synthesis I can't even begin to describe. Actually, I will. There's lots of surrealism here, but not just for its own sake. There's deep philosophy here too. The sombering tones give the incredulous imagery and abstractionistic logic (this guy's a hard read, as it says in the preface) and language that makes him something like a Sylvia Plath in tuxedo, but with a much wider-spanning genius that gives his poetry a greater variety of elements and vocabulary, and with better breaks and sense of poetic rhythm.
Rating: 5
Summary: Walcott's Incomparable Command of the English Language
Comment: One cannot recommend this book too highly. It is a certain classic for scores of generations to come. Derek Walcott IS the Carribean. His poems enrich the reader's sense of the Carribean without ever over-sentimentalizing. Walcott's keen observations heighten the familiar, while at times domesticating the exotic. His poem "The Spoiler's Return" is equally humorous and disturbing, as it adresses the social problems of the Carribean, and is best appreciated when read with a Carribean accent. His lines ebb and flow like a tide, but always draw you in and never disappoint. Must read poems of his: "Codicil", "The Spoiler's Return", "LI" (from the Midsummer collection), "The Schooner Flight", "The Fortunate Traveller". If you buy one collection of English poetry published after WWII, this should be the book you purchase. No one alive can make the English language work as powerfully and brilliantly for him/her as Derek Walcott can.
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Title: Omeros by Derek Walcott ISBN: 0374523509 Publisher: Noonday Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1992 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Conversations With Derek Walcott (Literary Conversations Series (Paper)) by Derek Walcott, William Baer ISBN: 0878058559 Publisher: Univ Pr of Mississippi (Trd) Pub. Date: May, 1996 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Tiepolo's Hound by Derek Walcott ISBN: 0374527792 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: 15 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Derek Walcott Reads by Derek Walcott, Walcott Derek ISBN: 0694514608 Publisher: HarperAudio Pub. Date: 01 September, 1994 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: What the Twilight Says : Essays by Derek Walcott ISBN: 0374526834 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: 25 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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