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What the Twilight Says

Essays

Author: Derek Walcott

What the Twilight Says

What the Twilight Says

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About This Book

The first collection of essays by the Nobel laureate Derek Walcott, What the Twilight Says, drawn from pieces originally published in The New York Review of Books, The New Republic,...

Page Count
256
On Sale
10/25/1999

Book Details

The first collection of essays by the Nobel laureate Derek Walcott, What the Twilight Says, drawn from pieces originally published in The New York Review of Books, The New Republic, and elsewhere.

This collection forms a volume of remarkable elegance, concision, and brilliance. It includes Walcott's moving and insightful examinations of the paradoxes of Caribbean culture, his Nobel lecture, and his reckoning of the work and significance of such poets as Robert Lowell, Joseph Brodsky, Robert Frost, Les Murray, and Ted Hughes, and of prose writers such as V. S. Naipaul and Patrick Chamoiseau.

On every subject he takes up, Walcott the essayist brings to bear the lyric power and syncretic intelligence that made him one of the major poetic voices of our time.

Imprint Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

ISBN

9780374526832

In The News

“There is no one writing in English at present who can join power with delicacy the way Walcott can.” —Sven Birkerts, The New Republic

“Walcott is a kingfisher critic, with flashing insights, an original who writes a profound, poetic prose . . . Derek Walcott's words go from strength to strength.” —Paula Burnett, The Times (London)

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What the Twilight Says

What the Twilight Says

$22.00