Description
A searching and richly layered collection, this volume follows the journeys—literal, historical, and inward—of a Black Caribbean writer navigating America and an increasingly complicated relationship with home. Walcott confronts the legacies of colonialism, racism, war, and Western civilization’s moral failures, balancing travel’s promise of freedom against the estrangement and complicity it can reveal. His poems move between intimate self-examination and expansive meditations on history, geography, exile, and cultural identity. With its vivid imagery, formal precision, and characteristic blend of lyric beauty and irony, the collection presents travel not as simple discovery, but as a test of conscience and belonging.
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paperback
Farrar Straus Giroux
Published Jan 1, 1981
99 pages
ISBN: 0374157650
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Details
First Published
1981
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for The Fortunate Traveller by Derek Walcott.