[Many thanks to Peter Jordens for bringing this item to our attention.] The Voice St. Lucia brings consideration to 2 tributes to beloved poet Derek Walcott printed this yr (2022) in “Reflective Evaluations of Sir Derek Walcott’s Work.” The 2 books are Between Fury and Peace: The Many Arts of Derek Walcott (edited by Askold Melnyczuk) and Tributes to Derek Walcott, 1930-2017: In Varied Mild (Helen Goethals and Eric Doumerc).
Between Fury and Peace: The Many Arts of Derek Walcott, Askold Melnyczuk, Ed.
Arrowsmith Press, August 2022
253 pages
ISBN 978-1737615699 (pb), 979-8986340135 (hc)
Description: St. Lucian poet Derek Walcott, who gained the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992, was additionally a playwright, a director, a painter, and a beloved instructor. This quantity of essays explores all facets of Walcott’s artistic work by writers who knew him as colleagues, pals, and college students. That includes 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.
Tributes to Derek Walcott, 1930-2017: In Varied Mild, Helen Goethals and Eric Doumerc
Cambridge Students Publishing, July 2022
245 pages
ISBN 978-1527584013 (hc)
Description: Coming some 5 years after the dying of poet, playwright, instructor and painter Derek Walcott, this guide brings collectively essays, memoirs, and artistic work addressing many facets of his life and work. 20 years after Walcott turned the primary Caribbean author to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, this quantity gathers famend and rising poets, pals, theatre critics and artists to put naked their very own relationship with a larger-than-life determine and forged their ‘varied gentle’ on his by-no-means unproblematic legacy.
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