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The Bounty

Poems

By Walcott Derek

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| Paperback | 9780374525378

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The Bounty was the first book of poems Walcott published after winning the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature. Opening with the title poem, a memorable elegy to the poet's mother, the book features a haunting series of poems that evoke Walcott's native ground, the island of St. Lucia. "For almostContinue

The Bounty was the first book of poems Walcott published after winning the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature. Opening with the title poem, a memorable elegy to the poet's mother, the book features a haunting series of poems that evoke Walcott's native ground, the island of St. Lucia. "For almost forty years his throbbing and relentless lines kept arriving in the English language like tidal waves," Walcott's great contemporary Joseph Brodsky once observed. "He gives us more than himself or 'a world'; he gives us a sense of infinity embodied in the language."

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 96 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 0374525374
  • ISBN-13: 9780374525378
  • Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  • Pub date: Mar 18, 1998
  • Dimensions: 1290 mm x 1032 mm x 65 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Hardcover
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