{"product_id":"what-the-twilight-says-essays-paperback","title":"What the Twilight Says: Essays - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDerek Walcott\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe first collection of essays by the Nobel laureate Derek Walcott, \u003ci\u003eWhat the Twilight Says, \u003c\/i\u003edrawn from pieces originally published in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books, The New Republic\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis collection forms a volume of remarkable elegance, concision, and brilliance. It includes Walcott's moving and insightful examinations of the paradoxes of Caribbean culture, his Nobel lecture, and his reckoning of the work and significance of such poets as Robert Lowell, Joseph Brodsky, Robert Frost, Les Murray, and Ted Hughes, and of prose writers such as V. S. Naipaul and Patrick Chamoiseau. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOn every subject he takes up, Walcott the essayist brings to bear the lyric power and syncretic intelligence that made him one of the major poetic voices of our time.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDerek Walcott (1930-2017)\u003c\/b\u003e was born in St. Lucia, the West Indies, in 1930. His \u003ci\u003eCollected Poems: 1948-1984\u003c\/i\u003e was published in 1986, and his subsequent works include a book-length poem, \u003ci\u003eOmeros \u003c\/i\u003e(1990); a collection of verse, \u003ci\u003eThe Bounty\u003c\/i\u003e (1997); and, in an edition illustrated with his own paintings, the long poem \u003ci\u003eTiepolo's Hound\u003c\/i\u003e (2000). His numerous plays include \u003ci\u003eThe Haitian Trilogy\u003c\/i\u003e (2001) and \u003ci\u003eWalker and The Ghost Dance\u003c\/i\u003e (2002). Walcott received the Queen's Medal for Poetry in 1988 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1992.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.4 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 11, 2004\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51762268504352,"sku":"9780374526832","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/fbde18aa5e38ce90fccc78d78a01956b.webp?v=1780218647","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/what-the-twilight-says-essays-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}