The Poetry of Derek Walcott 1948-2013读书介绍

A collection spanning the whole of Derek Walcott’s celebrated, inimitable, essential career

“He gives us more than himself or ‘a world’; he gives us a sense of infinity embodied in the language.” Alongside Joseph Brodsky’s words of praise one might mention the more concrete honors that the renowned poet Derek Walcott has received: a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship; the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry; the Nobel Prize in Literature.

The Poetry of Derek Walcott 1948–2013 draws from every stage of the poet’s storied career. Here are examples of his very earliest work, like “In My Eighteenth Year,” published when the poet himself was still a teenager; his first widely celebrated verse, like “A Far Cry from Africa,” which speaks of violence, of loyalties divided in one’s very blood; his mature work, like “The Schooner Flight” from The Star-Apple Kingdom; and his late masterpieces, like the tender “Sixty Years After,” from the 2010 collection White Egrets.

Across sixty-five years, Walcott grapples with the themes that have defined his work as they have defined his life: the unsolvable riddle of identity; the painful legacy of colonialism on his native Caribbean island of St. Lucia; the mysteries of faith and love and the natural world; the Western canon, celebrated and problematic; the trauma of growing old, of losing friends, family, one’s own memory. This collection, selected by Walcott’s friend the English poet Glyn Maxwell, will prove as enduring as the questions, the passions, that have driven Walcott to write for more than half a century.

德里克·沃尔科特（1930-2017），圣卢西亚诗人，戏剧家，散文家，画家，曾就读于圣玛丽公学、西印度群岛大学莫纳分校，任教于波士顿大学、阿尔伯塔大学，最终在英国埃塞克斯大学获得诗歌教授的教席。沃尔科特是现当代英语诗坛最为杰出的诗人之一，1988年获女王诗歌金章，1990年获W.H.史密斯文学奖，1992年获诺贝尔文学奖。代表作有三大长诗《另一生》、《奥马罗斯（荷马）》、《提埃坡罗的猎犬》，以及《城市死于火》《非洲已远》《克鲁索的日记》《海葡萄》《纵帆船“飞翔号”》《星苹果王国》《幸运的旅行者》《世界之光》《阿肯色圣约》《恩赐》等。

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