Black Renaissance, April 1st, 2005
New York City, 28 October 2004
Derek Walcott was born in St. Lucia in 1930. His works include Collected Poems: 1948 - 1984 (1986), Omeros (1990), The Bounty (1997), Tiepolo's Hound (2000) and The Prodigal (2004). The title The Prodigal has complex associations related to homecoming and to the recent death of Walcott's twin brother. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1992.
Castro: The Prodigal, your new poetry volume, is a long poem in three parts with numbered sections. Is its form a modified decasyllabic version of epic trilogies of old-or how did you arrive at the form? Also, the...
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