The Prodigal - Hardcover

Walcott, Derek

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0374237433 ISBN 13: 9780374237431

Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2004

Synopsis

The celebrated poet shares his sweeping vision of the ancient and the sublime in the Old World while never forgetting his roots in the New--particularly the Caribbean, which has served as a poetic backdrop throughout his career.

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Review:

"'Walcott is a poet of metaphor. His transmogrifying gift with sensory detail, and his magical conversion of landscape back into the scribal culture that seeks it out, simply mesmerise.' Fred D'Aguiar, Independent 'Sometimes people win Nobel prizes for a reason... One can't ask for better.' Economist 'The Prodigal is a work of apparent leave-taking, a settling of accounts, mixing sober self-assessment with ecstatic praise of the variousness of the world. [Walcott has] an inexhaustible gift for making the world present.' Sean O'Brien, Sunday Times"

Book Description:

The Prodigal, Derek Walcott's 2005 collection, is a compelling steer between exile and belonging, Europe and the New World, wanderlust and the inevitable pull of home.

About this edition

• Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0374237433
• ISBN 13: 9780374237431
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 105