Description
A poised and deeply reflective collection, this volume gathers 54 poems that move through love, mortality, memory, Caribbean history, the legacy of empire, and the sustaining power of art. Drawing on the sea, birds, light, landscape, and the rhythms of the Caribbean, the poems transform lived experience into meditations on aging, loss, and the passage of time. At once cosmopolitan and rooted in the natural world, the collection is marked by rich imagery, musical language, and an elegiac awareness of death. Its recurring images of migration, silence, and the blank page affirm poetry as both an act of remembrance and a continuing creative renewal.
Available Editions
paperback
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published Jan 1, 2010
86 pages
ISBN: 9780374289294
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Details
First Published
2010
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for White Egrets by Derek Walcott.