In "White Egrets", Derek Walcott treats his characteristic subjects - the Caribbean's complex colonial legacy, the Western artistic tradition, the blessings and withholdings of old Europe (Andalucia, the Mezzogiorno, Amsterdam), the unaccommodating sublime of the new world, time's cunning passages, the poet's place in all of this - with a passionate intensity and drive that recall his greatest work. Through the systolic and mesmerizing repetition of theme and imagery, Walcott carries his surf-like cadence from poem to poem, and from sequence to sequence in this celebratory and close-knit collection.
- ISBN13 9780571254736
- Publish Date 18 March 2010 (first published 16 March 2010)
- Publish Status Transferred
- Out of Print 28 February 2015
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Faber & Faber
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 96
- Language English
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