Gulf and Other Poems

Fiction & Literature, Poetry
Cover of the book Gulf and Other Poems by Derek Walcott, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Derek Walcott ISBN: 9781466880351
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Publication: September 9, 2014
Imprint: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Language: English
Author: Derek Walcott
ISBN: 9781466880351
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication: September 9, 2014
Imprint: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Language: English

As his title suggests, Derek Walcott's new poems--while making beautiful use of Caribbean imagery--are concerned with themes of isolation and the achievement of identity through loneliness. When it was published in England in 1969, The Gulf was awarded the Cholmondeley prize for poetry. As the London Times wrote, "His new collection is as noble and stern and grand as Milton...Walcott writes with a tropical glory of images; handles his huge pyrotechnic vocabulary with iron-discipline , verve and nerve...His glittering intelligence and luxurious command of sensation fuse in a mastery of images which burst in the brain like balls of phosphorescent fire."

The subject of the title poem is the alienation and isolation of an America

where filling-station signs
proclaim the Gulf, an air, heavy
with gas
sickens the state, from Newark
to New Orleans.

The central figure in the Caribbean poems is a Robinson Crusoe-like castaway, who "learns again the self-creating peace of islands."

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

As his title suggests, Derek Walcott's new poems--while making beautiful use of Caribbean imagery--are concerned with themes of isolation and the achievement of identity through loneliness. When it was published in England in 1969, The Gulf was awarded the Cholmondeley prize for poetry. As the London Times wrote, "His new collection is as noble and stern and grand as Milton...Walcott writes with a tropical glory of images; handles his huge pyrotechnic vocabulary with iron-discipline , verve and nerve...His glittering intelligence and luxurious command of sensation fuse in a mastery of images which burst in the brain like balls of phosphorescent fire."

The subject of the title poem is the alienation and isolation of an America

where filling-station signs
proclaim the Gulf, an air, heavy
with gas
sickens the state, from Newark
to New Orleans.

The central figure in the Caribbean poems is a Robinson Crusoe-like castaway, who "learns again the self-creating peace of islands."

More books from Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Cover of the book The Bowl Is Already Broken by Derek Walcott
Cover of the book Calvin by Derek Walcott
Cover of the book On Democracy's Doorstep: The Inside Story of How the Supreme Court Brought "One Person, One Vote" to the United States by Derek Walcott
Cover of the book An Elegy for Easterly by Derek Walcott
Cover of the book The Dark Dark by Derek Walcott
Cover of the book This Close to Happy by Derek Walcott
Cover of the book A Malamud Reader by Derek Walcott
Cover of the book For the Soul of Mankind by Derek Walcott
Cover of the book The Goats by Derek Walcott
Cover of the book Walter's Wonderful Web by Derek Walcott
Cover of the book No Impact Man by Derek Walcott
Cover of the book The Atomic Bazaar by Derek Walcott
Cover of the book Gertrude by Derek Walcott
Cover of the book Edmund Wilson by Derek Walcott
Cover of the book Plausible Portraits of James Lord by Derek Walcott
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy