Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott’s The Prodigal is a journey through physical and mental landscapes, from Greenwich Village to the Alps, Pescara to Milan, Germany to Cartagena.
But always in “the music of memory, water,” abides St. Lucia, the author’s birthplace, and the living sea. In this book of poems, Derek Walcott has created a sweeping yet intimate epic of an exhausted Europe studded with church spires and mountains, train stations and statuary, where the New World is an idea, a “wavering map,” and where History subsumes the natural history of his “unimportantly beautiful” island home. Here, the wanderer fears that he has been tainted by his exile, that his life has become untranslatable, and that his craft itself is rooted in betrayal of the vivid archipelago to which, like Antaeus, he must return for the very sustenance of life.
Author: Derek Walcott
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
Published: 03/21/2006
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.32lbs
Size: 8.26h x 5.49w x 0.33d
ISBN: 9780374530167
Language: English
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