Tributes To Derek Walcott 1930 2017

Author : Helen Goethals
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 152758402X
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tributes to Derek Walcott, 1930-2017 written by Helen Goethals and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2022-07-06 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coming some five years after the death of poet, playwright, teacher and painter Derek Walcott, this book brings together essays, memoirs, and creative work addressing many aspects of his life and work. 20 years after Walcott became the first Caribbean writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, this volume gathers renowned and emerging poets, friends, theatre critics and artists to lay bare their own relationship with a larger-than-life figure and cast their ‘various light’ on his by-no-means unproblematic legacy.

Author : Nirjhar Sarkar
Publisher : Vernon Press
ISBN 13 : 1648895816
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theatre as Alter/"Native" in Derek Walcott written by Nirjhar Sarkar and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Theatre as Alter/“Native” in Derek Walcott' attempts a close and detailed politico-aesthetic analysis of his major plays. At the core of this book lies the attempt to answer the question of how postcolonial artists and intellectuals have dared to imagine radically different ways of living in the face of oppositional, binary choices. And as the title suggests, Walcott’s plays carve out critical spaces for new narratives of “becoming” and alternative priorities, entangled in contesting identities inscribed by race, language and ethnicity. Theatre, as Walcott knew, would be instrumental in demystifying Caribbean “Absence” and “Void” and generating an alternative version of dominant reality. By a deliberate unseating of the Western texts, filled with banal stereotypes and their representational biases, and by triggering “re-action” to the scripts of the colonizers in profoundly paradoxical ways, Walcott’s plays affirm the Caribbean identity. This study seeks to demonstrate how his plays open an alter/“native” universe in terms of aesthetics, dramaturgy and the performative, and reclaims ‘New World’ identity in terms of negotiation rather than negation—undermining the claim of “solid”, “authentic” culture. Placing the arts at the forefront of nation-building, Walcott situated his plays at a crucial juncture between the passing of the Empire and the newly-born Federation in his archipelago.

Author : Anthony Hecht
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0593319192
Total Pages : 641 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Collected Poems of Anthony Hecht written by Anthony Hecht and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2023-11-07 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his centenary year, this volume of the Pulitzer Prize winner and former poet laureate’s poems celebrates the indispensable artistry of a writer who faced the history of his era with a “clear-eyed mercy toward human weakness” (The New York Times Book Review) and was hailed in his day as “the best poet writing in English” (Joseph Brodsky). This volume brings together for the first time all of the poems that appeared in Anthony Hecht’s seven trade collections, from A Summoning of Stones of 1954 through to The Darkness and the Light of 2001; it adds the remarkable work contained in his posthumously issued Interior Skies: Late Poems from Liguria of 2011; and it rounds this out with the best of the many poems which were left uncollected at the time of his death in 2004, the earliest dating from 1950 and the latest from 2001. Including the woodcuts by Leonard Baskin that accompanied some of his pieces through the years, Collected Poems brings us the full sweep of the experience and artistry of Anthony Hecht, who, as an infantryman in World War II, bore witness to the shaping events of his time, which continue to shape our own. As the editor Philip Hoy states in his introduction: “Anthony Hecht once wrote that poems can allow us to contemplate our ‘sweetest triumphs’ and our ‘deepest desolations,’ and by employing ‘the manifold devices of art’ to recover for us what he memorably called ‘the inexhaustible plenitude of the world.’ The work gathered together here amply attests to the truth of that claim, and makes it clear that Hecht was one of the finest poets, not just of his generation, but of the twentieth century.”

Author : Derek Walcott
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 9780374202910
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Marie LaVeau and Steel written by Derek Walcott and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2021-12-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When black New Orleans madam and voodoo priestess Marie LaVeau attempts to wrest control of her brothel away from its white financier, she unleashes a racial and religious storm that threatens to consume the city. With his customary feel for character and language, Derek Walcott expertly navigates the territory between two very different sides of New Orleans¿one Christian and the other animist. Using song and humour, Marie LaVeau brilliantly lays bare the absurdities upon which the Old South rested. In Steel, Walcott employs verse, song, and the vernacular to narrate the story of the Bandidos, a group of panband musicians in Trinidad, as they struggle among themselves, do battle with the police, and fight against the weight of their colonial history. Set to the rhythm of the steel drum, this is a paean to the people of the West Indies¿their hardships, their triumphs, and their sense of community; it is also a moving tribute to the political force and redemptive power of art. In these two plays, Walcott brings to bear the lyric force and dynamic intelligence that have made him one of the major poetic voices of our time.

Author : Derek Walcott
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466880333
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dream on Monkey Mountain and Other Plays written by Derek Walcott and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a Caribbean island, the morning after a full moon, Felix Hobain tears through the market in a drunken rage. Taken away to sober up in jail, all that night he is gripped by hallucinations: the impoverished hermit believes he has become a healer, walking from village to village, tending to the sick, waiting for a sign from God. In this dream, his one companion, Moustique, wants to exploit his power. Moustique decides to impersonate a prophet himself, ignoring a coffin-maker who warns him he will die and enraging the people of the island. Hobain, half-awake in his desolate jail cell, terrorized by the specter of his friend's corruption, clings to his visionary quest. He will try to transform himself; to heal Moustique, his jailer, and his jail-mates; and to be a leader for his people. Dream on Monkey Mountain was awarded the 1971 Obie Award for a Distinguished Foreign Play when it was first presented in New York, and Edith Oliver, writing in The New Yorker, called it "a masterpiece." Three of Derek's Walcott's most popular short plays are also included in this volume: Ti-Jean and His Brothers; Malcochon, or The Six in the Rain; and The Sea at Dauphin. In an expansive introductory essay, "What the Twilight Says," the playwright explains his founding of the seminal dramatic company where these works were first performed, the Trinidad Theatre Workshop. First published in 1970, Dream on Monkey Mountain and Other Plays is an essential part of Walcott's vast and important body of work.

Author : Derek Walcott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780571191314
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bounty written by Derek Walcott and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bounty was Derek Walcott's first collection of poems after the 1990 publication of his epic Omeros. It is a book of many complex moods and ideas. The title poem establishes as much from the outset, being both an elegy, for the poet's mother, as well as something of a literary self-examination and canticle of praise for natural abundance. The poems that follow look at the poet's experience of Europe, Africa and his native Caribbean. They are marked by his characteristic ability to meet the world's multifariousness with a verse that is supple in its rhythms and syntax, and that proliferates with an inexhaustible gift for metaphor. A tribute to Derek Walcott's late friend and fellow Nobel Prize winner, Joseph Brodsky, ends the book.

Author : Derek Walcott
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466880465
Total Pages : 55 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Star-Apple Kingdom written by Derek Walcott and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most of the poems in this new collection follow the arc of the Caribbean archipelago from Trinidad to Jamaica. The reader is taken on an odyssey, beginning with "The Schooner Flight," in which a poor mulatto sailor abandons his life in Trinidad, sailing northward to meet his fate, and ending with "The Star-Apple Kingdom," a long poem whose axis is the crucial attempt to establish a new social order in Jamaica without sacrificing democracy. Other poems speak through various personae: "Koenig of the River" marks the end of a saga of nineteenth-century exploration and conquest through the Conradian image of a missionary-soldier whose comrades have been lost at sea; "The Saddhu of Couva" describes the lament of an Indian priest for a fading spirituality; "Egypt, Tobago" places Mark Antony on a beach in the glare of afternoon. Two poems are dedicated to fellow poets--Josephy Brodsky and Robert Lowell. In The Star-Apple Kingdom, Walcott's precise and inventive imagery is enriched by frequent exploitation of the tonal aspects of dialect. He has absorbed into poetry the normal resources of fiction--to the point where fact crystallizes into metaphor. As John Thompson recently commented in The New York Review of Books: "Walcott writes now as a man who knows exactly what he is doing. His style is that of the best language of our period."

Author : Сергій Жадан
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781733340038
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Новий Правопис written by Сергій Жадан and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New Orthography by Serhiy Zhadan is the fifth volume in Lost Horse Press?s Contemporary Ukrainian Poetry Series. In these poems, the poet focuses on daily life during the Russo-Ukrainian war, rendering intimate portraits of the country?s residents as they respond to crisis. Zhadan revives and revises the role of the nineteenth-century Romantic bard, one who portrays his community with clarity, preserving its most precious aspects and darkest nuances. The poems investigate questions of home, exile, solitude, love, and religious faith, making vivid the experiences of noncombatants, refugees, soldiers, and veterans. This collection will be of interest to those who study how poetry observes and mirrors the shifts within a country during wartime, and it offers solace as well.

Author : Derek Walcott
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374125619
Total Pages : 641 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Poetry of Derek Walcott 1948-2013 written by Derek Walcott and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-01-21 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection spanning the range of the writer's career includes his first published poem, his celebrated verses on violence in Africa, his mature work from "The Star-Apple Kingdom, " and his late masterpieces from "White Egrets."

Author : Hart Crane
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book White Buildings written by Hart Crane and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: