Description
A luminous sequence of poems set against the heat, color, and stillness of a Caribbean midsummer, this collection explores island life through landscapes shaped by sea, memory, family, and friendship. Moving between the tropics and the wider modern world, the poems consider migration, history, art, and the uneasy relationship between inherited culture and American energy. Richly visual and musical, the work reflects on the connections between painting and poetry while capturing both the stasis and creative tension of the season. It is a searching, sensuous meditation on place, identity, and the imagination’s power to transform experience.
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paperback
Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Published Jan 1, 1984
78 pages
ISBN: 0374208840
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Details
First Published
1984
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Midsummer by Derek Walcott.