White Egrets

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Derek Walcott

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A DAZZLING NEW COLLECTION FROM ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT POETS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

In White Egrets, Derek Walcott treats the characteristic subjects of his career—the Caribbean’s complex colonial legacy, his love of the Western literary tradition, the wisdom that comes through the passing of time, the always strange joys of new love, and the sometimes terrifying beauty of the natural world—with an intensity and drive that recall his greatest work. Through the mesmerizing repetition of theme and imagery, Walcott creates an almost surflike cadence, broadening the possibilities of rhyme and meter, poetic form and language.

White Egrets is a moving new collection from one of the most important poets of the twentieth century—a celebration of the life and language of the West Indies. It is also a triumphant paean to beauty, love, art, and—perhaps most surprisingly—getting older.

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“No poet rivals Mr. Walcott in humor, emotional depth, lavish inventiveness in language or in the ability to express the thoughts of his characters and compel the reader to follow the swift mutations of ideas and images in their minds . . . [His poetry] makes us realize that history, all of it, belongs to us.” —The New York Times Book Review

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Serena  rated it  
Apr 17, 2011
White Egrets by Derek Walcott is a collection of deeply suggestive and blatant poems about the natural cycle of birth, life, and death and coming to terms with the later as friends, lovers, and others pass away leaving the narrator behind on the journey of life. Each poem uses nature imagery to pai ...more
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Bill  rated it  
Mar 29, 2011
Nice poems by a one of our generation's finest writers... ...more
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Neil  rated it  
Feb 18, 2011
If Derek Walcott was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992 mainly for ‘Omeros’, then ‘White Egrets’ makes the case for the awarding of a second Nobel. It’s much shorter than ‘Omeros’, yet the level of sophistication in the text, playfulness, transnational sensibility, and inventive poetics ...more
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DEREK WALCOTT was born in St. Lucia in 1930. He is the author of eight collections of plays and a book of essays. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1992. White Egrets is his fourteenth collection of poems.

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White Egrets
Poems
Derek Walcott
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Nobel Prize For Literature

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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March 2011
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