Description
This landmark collection gathers poems written during Derek Walcott’s formative years, tracing a Caribbean poet’s coming of age through encounters with history, art, language, love, and the natural world. Moving between the landscapes of the West Indies and the wider legacies of empire, the poems confront colonial violence, fractured identity, and the complicated relationship between African ancestry and Caribbean life. From intimate portraits to sweeping meditations on nations, memory, and belonging—including the acclaimed “A Far Cry from Africa”—the collection reveals Walcott’s gift for transforming personal experience into richly textured, universal poetry. Lyrical, formally assured, and alert to the moral complexity of history, it established the distinctive voice that would make Walcott one of the defining poets of the modern Caribbean.
Available Editions
paperback
Cape
Published Jan 1, 1969
79 pages
ISBN: 0224617710
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Details
First Published
1962
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for In a Green Night by Derek Walcott.