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The Prodigal: A Poem Paperback - 2006

by Derek Walcott

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The Novel Prize-winning poet takes readers on 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.

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Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott's 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 this book of poems, 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.

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  • Title The Prodigal: A Poem
  • Author Derek Walcott
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st
  • Pages 112
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York
  • Publication date 2006-03-21
  • ISBN 9780374530167 / 0374530165
  • Weight 0.32 lbs (0.15 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.26 x 5.49 x 0.33 in (20.98 x 13.94 x 0.84 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Caribbean
    • Cultural Region: Latin America
    • Cultural Region: Middle Eastern
  • Category Poetry
  • Library of Congress subjects Europe, Exiles
  • Dewey Decimal Code 811.54

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  • New Yorker (The), 04/23/2006, Page 28

About the author

Derek Walcott was born in St. Lucia in 1930. His Collected Poems: 1948-1984 was published in 1986, and his subsequent works include Omeros (1990), The Bounty (1997), and Tiepolo's Hound (2000). He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1992.

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