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Between Fury And Peace - by Askold Melnyczuk (Paperback)
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- St. Lucian poet Derek Walcott, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992, was also a playwright, a director, a painter, and a beloved teacher.
- Author(s): Askold Melnyczuk
- 260 Pages
- Poetry, Caribbean & Latin American
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This volume of essays explores all aspects of Nobel Prize winning poet Derek Walcott's creative work by writers who knew him as colleagues, friends, and students.
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St. Lucian poet Derek Walcott, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992, was also a playwright, a director, a painter, and a beloved teacher. This volume of essays explores all aspects of Walcott's creative work by writers who knew him as colleagues, friends, and students. Featuring essays and recollections by: Peter Balakian, Robert Bensen, Sven Birkerts, Peter Campion, Rachel DeWoskin, Zayd Ayers Dohrn, Martin Edmunds, Thomas Sayers Ellis, Carolyn Forché, Jonathan Galassi, Dan Hunter, Kirun Kapur, Karl Kirchwey, Adam Kirsch, John Robert Lee, Glyn Maxwell, Askold Melnyczuk, Caryl Phillips, Steven Ratiner, Eva Salzman, Bob Scanlan, Tom Sleigh, Kate Snodgrass, Jacob Strautmann, and Rosanna Warren.
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The Nobel committee described Derek Walcott's work as "a poetic oeuvre of great luminosity, sustained by a historical vision, the outcome of a multicultural commitment."
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