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Product Description: This near-definitive study sets a new standard for the kind of meticulous scholarship that Nobel laureate Derek Walcott's poetry deserves. "Another Life", Walcott's masterpiece of autobiography in verse. (D.J. McClatchy, writing in "The New Republic", called it 'one of the best long autobiographical poems in English, with the narrative sweep, the lavish layering of details, and the mythic resonance of a certain classic'), is an ideal point of entry into Walcott's work...read more

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9780894102790 | 2 sub edition (Passeggiata Pr, April 1, 1982), cover price $7.50 | About this edition: This near-definitive study sets a new standard for the kind of meticulous scholarship that Nobel laureate Derek Walcott's poetry deserves.

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Product Description: This study offers a meticulous critique of Nobel laureate Derek Walcott's poetry. "Another Life", Walcott's masterpiece of autobiography in verse, has of course been widely praised. D.J. McClatchy, for example, writing in "The New Republic", called it "one of the best long autobiographical poems in English, with the narrative sweep, the lavish layering of details, and the mythic resonance of a certain classic"...read more
By Edward Baugh (contributor), Colbert I. Nepaulsingh (contributor) and Derek Walcott

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9780894108686 | Lynne Rienner Pub, January 1, 2004, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: This study offers a meticulous critique of Nobel laureate Derek Walcott's poetry.

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Product Description: Derek Walcott was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature on December 10, 1992. His Nobel lecture is a stirring evocation of the multivalent wholeness of the culture of the Antilles, forged out of a violent history against a land- and seascape of immemorial dimensions...read more

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9780374105303 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, March 1, 1993, cover price $7.00 | About this edition: Derek Walcott was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature on December 10, 1992.

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Product Description: Derek Walcott's eighth collection of poems, The Arkansas Testament, is divided into two parts--"Here," verse evoking the poet's native Caribbean, and "Elsewhere." It opens with six poems in quatrains whose memorable, compact lines further Walcott's continuous effort to crystallize images of the Caribbean landscape and people...read more

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9780374520991 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, August 1, 1988, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Derek Walcott's eighth collection of poems, The Arkansas Testament, is divided into two parts--"Here," verse evoking the poet's native Caribbean, and "Elsewhere.

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Product Description: The Bounty was the first book of poems Walcott published after winning the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature. Opening with the title poem, a memorable elegy to the poet's mother, the book features a haunting series of poems that evoke Walcott's native ground, the island of St...read more

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9780374115562 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, June 1, 1997, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: Poems use the story of the 1787 arrival of the Bounty in the Caribbean as way to consider life, art, identity, and the past

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9780374525378 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, April 1, 1998, cover price $11.00 | About this edition: The Bounty was the first book of poems Walcott published after winning the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature.
9780571191314 | Gardners Books, July 7, 1997, cover price $13.10 | About this edition: A collection of verse, including a long sequence in memory of the poet's mother and a series dedicated to the poet Joseph Brodsky.

The singer-songwriter and the Nobel Prize-winning poet collaborate on a passionate, suspenseful musical drama based on the life of a young Puerto Rican gang member who embarks on an odyssey through the criminal justice system. Simultaneous.

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9780374525392 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, April 1, 1998, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: The singer-songwriter and the Nobel Prize-winning poet collaborate on a passionate, suspenseful musical drama based on the life of a young Puerto Rican gang member who embarks on an odyssey through the criminal justice system.

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9780374118815 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, April 1, 1998, cover price $28.00

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This retrospective collection includes most of the poems from each of the poet's previous books, as selected by the poet, and the complete text of 'Another Life,' a long narrative poem

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9780374126261 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, January 1, 1986, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: This retrospective collection includes most of the poems from each of the poet's previous books, as selected by the poet, and the complete text of 'Another Life,' a long narrative poem

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9780374520250 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, January 1, 1987, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: This retrospective collection includes most of the poems from each of the poet's previous books, as selected by the poet, and the complete text of 'Another Life,' a long narrative poem

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9781439510131 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, July 10, 2008), cover price $29.00

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Product Description: This text is written in an informal, conversational style with emphases on investing in common stocks and traditional security analysis, applications, historical context, qualitative factors, and relevance to the individual investor...read more

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9780030237669, titled "Contemporary Investments" | Har/dskt edition (South-Western Pub, October 1, 1997), cover price $209.95 | also contains Contemporary Investments, Conversations With Derek Walcott | About this edition: This text is written in an informal, conversational style with emphases on investing in common stocks and traditional security analysis, applications, historical context, qualitative factors, and relevance to the individual investor.

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9780878058556 | Univ Pr of Mississippi, May 1, 1996, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: When Derek Walcott was awarded the Nobel Prize, he was cited for "a poetic oeuvre of great luminosity, sustained by a historical vision, the outcome of a multicultural commitment.

The Nobel Prize-winning poet, playwright, and essayist reads excerpts from his own works, including selections from Omeros, Odyssey, and Collected Poems, 1948-1984.

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9780694514601 | Harperaudio, September 1, 1994, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: The Nobel Prize-winning poet, playwright, and essayist presents excerpts from his works, including selections from 'Omeros,' 'The Odyssey,' and 'Collected Poems, 1948-1984.

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Brings together some forty evocative poems by English-language authors that reflect on the experience, sensuality, and joy of the summer season, with works by Emily Dickinson, William Shakespeare, Thomas Campion, Louise Gluck, Nikki Giovanni, Langston Hughes, and Charles Simic, among others.

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9780807068724 | Beacon Pr, June 15, 2004, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Brings together some forty evocative poems by English-language authors that reflect on the experience, sensuality, and joy of the summer season, with works by Emily Dickinson, William Shakespeare, Thomas Campion, Louise Gluck, Nikki Giovanni, Langston Hughes, and Charles Simic, among others.

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9780685770627 | Univ Place Book Shop, December 1, 1970, cover price $15.00
9780374508609 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, June 1, 1970, cover price $18.00
9789990059618 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, June 1, 1970, cover price $0.02

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Poems focus on the spiritual crisis of leaving one's native land, the impressions of a new country, and the persistence of Greek myths

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9780374157654 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, December 1, 1981, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Poems focus on the spiritual crisis of leaving one's native land, the impressions of a new country, and the persistence of Greek myths

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9780374517441, titled "The Fortunate Traveller" | Farrar Straus & Giroux, November 1, 1982, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Poems focus on the spiritual crisis of leaving one's native land, the impressions of a new country, and the persistence of Greek myths

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Product Description: Plays by the Nobel-laureate, brought together for the first timeIn the history plays that comprise The Haitian Trilogy--Henri Christophe, Drums and Colours and The Haytian Earth--Derek Walcott, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, uses verse to tell the story of his native West Indies as a four-hundred-year cycle of war, conquest and rebellion...read more

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9780374528133 | 1 edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, June 1, 2002), cover price $27.00 | About this edition: Plays by the Nobel-laureate, brought together for the first timeIn the history plays that comprise The Haitian Trilogy--Henri Christophe, Drums and Colours and The Haytian Earth--Derek Walcott, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, uses verse to tell the story of his native West Indies as a four-hundred-year cycle of war, conquest and rebellion.

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Three prominent contemporary poets explore the relationship between Frost's character and his works

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9780374172466 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, September 1, 1996, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: In a collection of essays, three of our generation's greatest poets explore the mythologies and misconceptions that surround one of this country's most idolized poets.

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9780374525248 | Reprint edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, September 1, 1997), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Three prominent contemporary poets explore the relationship between Frost's character and his works

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By Giuliana Bruno (contributor), Isaac Julien (photographer), Marie-Helene Laforest (contributor), Jose Esteban Munoz (contributor) and Derek Walcott (contributor)

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9781903811528 | Irish Museum of Modern Art, August 30, 2005, cover price $67.50

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Presents an evocative collection of interviews with some of Latin America's most acclaimed authors, compiled from the pages of The Paris Review, including Jorge Luis Borges, Pablo Neruda, Garbriel García Márquez, Octavio Paz, Carlos Fuentes, Mario Vargas Llosa, Luisa Valenzuela, Julio Cortazár, Manuel Puig, and Guillermo Cabrera Infante. Original. 15,000 first printing.
By Derek Walcott (editor)

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9780679773498 | Modern Library, March 1, 2003, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: From the pages of 'The Paris Review,' presents a collection of interviews with some of Latin America's most acclaimed authors, including Pablo Neruda, Carlos Fuentes, and Manuel Puig.

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9780374202910 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, December 1, 2016, cover price $16.00

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Displaying Walcott's characteristic blend of soaring imagery and plain fact, this sequence of fifty poems explores such themes as the relationship of poetry to painting and the pull of sea, family, and friendship

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9780374208844 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, June 1, 1984, cover price $12.50 | About this edition: Displaying Walcott's characteristic blend of soaring imagery and plain fact, this sequence of fifty poems explores such themes as the relationship of poetry to painting and the pull of sea, family, and friendship

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9780374518639 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, December 1, 1984, cover price $10.00 | About this edition: Displaying Walcott's characteristic blend of soaring imagery and plain fact, this sequence of fifty poems explores such themes as the relationship of poetry to painting and the pull of sea, family, and friendship
9780571131808 | Gardners Books, July 23, 1984, cover price $16.65 | About this edition: Most of the poems in this sequence of fifty where written in close succession during one summer in Trinidad.

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9780374533397 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, June 5, 2012, cover price $16.00

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9780374227074 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, February 18, 2014, cover price $15.00

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Product Description: This text is the result of a commission by the RSC. It shares the Homeric/Caribbean background with Walcott's epic poem "Omeros" which won the W.H. Smith Literary Award in 1990.

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9780571168569 | Gardners Books, June 14, 1993, cover price $15.65 | About this edition: This text is the result of a commission by the RSC.

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