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Books : The Prodigal: A Poem


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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.54
EAN: 9780374237431
ISBN: 0374237433
Label: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 112
Publication Date: October 27, 2004
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date: October 07, 2004
Sales Rank: 915034
Studio: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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Product Description:
Do not diminish in my memory
villages of absolutely no importance,
... Hoard, cherish
your negligible existence, your unrecorded history
of unambitious syntax, your clean pools
of unpolluted light over close stones.

The Prodigal is a journey through physical and mental landscapes, from Greenwich Village to the Alps, Pescara to Milan, Germany to Cartagena. But always in 'the music of memory, water,' abides St. Lucia, the author's birthplace, and the living sea. In his new work, Derek Walcott has created a sweeping yet intimate epic of an exhausted Europe studded with church spires and mountains, train stations and statuary, where the New World is an idea, a 'wavering map,' and where History subsumes the natural history of his 'unimportantly beautiful' island home. Here, the wanderer fears that he has been tainted by his exile, that his life has become untranslatable, and that his craft itself is rooted in betrayal of the vivid archipelago to which, like Antaeus, he must return for the very sustenance of life.




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Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - A flock of commas
In the "Prodigal", the noble poet luareate, Walcott proves again
he is a man of humble proportion with grand perspective. This landscape of memory lives in poignant hues. His flock of commas soar across stanzas of history. In the color nuiance, he bares his painted soul, so we may grow.



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