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Displaying Walcott's characteristic blend of soaring imagery and plain fact, this sequence of fifty poems explores such themes as the relationship of poetry to painting and the pull of sea, family, and friendship
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At the heart of Midsummer, there is a concern with how language--especially for the Caribbean writer--is defined by migration and travel, region and landscape. Since leaving Trinidad in 1981 to reside in the United States, the St Lucian poet and Noble Prizewinner, Derek Walcott, has composed poems infused by metaphors of excursion and return, poems mapping in this, the "last third of his life"--the seemingly unbridgeable distance between the metropolitan North and the underdeveloped South. In this powerful sequence of poems, Walcott is wryly conscious of the vastly different planes of reality they occupy: the "colourful" profusion of one, against the exhausted, defeated rawness of the other. While the "imperial dream" still echoes in the West's "fury of pronunciation" against its enemies, Walcott despairs of any cosmopolitan solution to the cultural barrenness of these "opposing alphabets". If poetry is to count in this war against bigotry and racism then it must be "non-aligned", free to bear witness, to expose the legacies and fears joining the two hemispheres. In the eight-piece sequence on Cuba, called "Tropic Zone", that realisation, however, comes perilously close to being undermined as Walcott nostalgically evokes days of prerevolutionary "grace", while celebrating the transforming-engendering-power of "genius ... to contradict history". That said, in the concluding poem he moves beyond nostalgia to end on an optimistic note, celebrating the "disenfranchised sublime" of the world's wanderers, their ability to rise from defeat and their eternal journeying between "memory" and "understanding". --David Marriott
About the Author
Derek Walcott was born in St Lucia, in the West Indies, in 1930. The author of many plays and books of poetry, most recently White Egrets (2010), he was awarded the Queen's Medal for Poetry in 1988, and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992.
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Bill Blackwood and Ray Mauser use their years of experience as executive coaches and consultants to help you define and clarify your personal values in this book. The authors present a discussion and definition of values as well as a tested, proven values clarification exercise. Values are those things that really matter to each of us-the ideas and beliefs we hold as special and will defend. Ray and Bill maintain a set of values are personal to you; no two people will necessarily have identical values. Thus, it is important that you clarify your personal set of values because your values define who you are, what you stand for, and influence your individual behavior. They provide a list of 70 values to start working with. Moreover, values drive how you gather and interpret information, frame decisions, and make choices, say the authors. Gaining an understanding of your value orientation is this book's intention. The assessment instrument included in this book is designed to help identify those values that are most important and meaningful to you. This book goes beyond clarifying your personal values. It provides the reader with exercises and techniques for validating and testing your values. You will recognize the various ways in which you engage your values in your daily life and work processes. Also, you will learn to see how you engage in value-driven actions, which may appear neutral or simply logical but nonetheless carry out your values in the way you make judgments, choices, and decisions. The authors separate and define many terms often defined as values. They provide examples of behaviors, attitudes, attributes, traits, and related terms often viewed or misconstrued as values. They also present a discussion of other classifications of values such as core values, social, political, professional, and so forth to help you distinguish these terms from your personal values. This book is a relatively short, quick read; yet hard-hitting with a practical style. While it is designed for understanding and clarifying your personal values, it is also suitable as a handbook for clarifying values in group settings, such as seminars, workshops, classrooms, and professional development venues. Seller Inventory # CIN0374518637VG
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