Description
A powerful collection of poems that explores the Caribbean’s layered histories, landscapes, and identities through vivid, sensuous language. Moving between myth, memory, politics, and everyday island life, the poems confront the legacies of colonialism while celebrating the region’s beauty, resilience, and cultural complexity. Sea, sky, city, and dream become charged symbols in a work that moves fluidly from intimate reflection to sweeping historical vision. Richly musical and imagistic, the collection exemplifies its author’s sustained effort to create a distinct Caribbean poetic voice.
Available Editions
paperback
Farrar Straus & Giroux
Published Jan 1, 1980
ISBN: 9780374515324
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Details
First Published
1979
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for The Star-apple Kingdom by Derek Walcott.