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Author Walcott, Derek.

Title The prodigal / Derek Walcott.

Imprint New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, ©2004.

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  811.54 WALCOTT    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  811.54 WALCOTT    Check Shelf
 Wethersfield Public Library - Non Fiction  811.54 WALCOTT    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  811.54 WALCOTT    Check Shelf
Edition 1st ed.
Description 105 pages ; 22 cm
Summary "Do not diminish in my memory villages of absolutely no importance ... Hoard, cherish your negligible existence, your unrecorded history of unambitious syntax, your clean pools of unpolluted light over close stones. 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 his new work, 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." http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/hol053/2004005147.html.
Subject Saint Lucian poetry (English)
Greenwich Village (New York, N.Y.) -- Poetry.
West Indians -- Foreign countries -- Poetry.
Europe -- Poetry.
Exiles -- Poetry.
ISBN 0374237433 (hc : alk. paper)
9780374237431 (hc : alk. paper)
9780374530167
0374530165
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