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34 produkter
O Starry Starry Night
A Play
Häftad, 2014
174 kr
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Two masterful artists—Gauguin and van Gogh—come alive in a vibrant drama about friendship, art, and madness Two painters—Paul Gauguin and Vincent van Gogh—are living together in the sleepy town of Arles in 1888. Soon, Gauguin, frustrated by van Gogh's refusal to acknowledge his increasingly …
Omeros
FSG 80th Anniversary Special Edition
Häftad, 2026
297 kr
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The grand epic poem from the Nobel Prize winner Derek Walcott. Omeros , named for Homer-that other chronicler of conflict and homecoming-is the Nobel Prize winner Derek Walcott's epic poem of the Atlantic. In scenes from St. Lucia, England, Massachusetts, and Lakota territory, Walcott offers …
Omeros
Häftad, 2002
227 kr
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Omeros is the Greek name for Homer and though Derek Walcott's protagonists, Achille and Philoctete, are simple fishermen, they and their tribulations take on the specific gravity and resonance of their mythic Greek namesakes. Walcott's magnificent poem charts both the visible history of events and …
Dream on Monkey Mountain and Other Plays
Häftad, 1971
251 kr
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On a Caribbean island, the morning after a full moon, Felix Hobain tears through the market in a drunken rage. Taken away to sober up in jail, all that night he is gripped by hallucinations: the impoverished hermit believes he has become a healer, walking from village to village, tending to the …
Collected Poems 1948-1984
Häftad, 1987
434 kr
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This remarkable collection, which won the 1986 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry, includes most of the poems from each of Derek Walcott's seven prior books of verse and all of his long autobiographical poem, "Another Life." The 1992 Nobel Laureate in Literature, Walcott has been …
The Haitian Trilogy: Plays: Henri Christophe, Drums and Colours, and the Haytian Earth
Häftad, 2002
409 kr
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Moon-Child
A Play
Häftad, 2012
190 kr
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In this lyrical new work, the poet and playwright Derek Walcott returns to the island of St. Lucia for a lush and vivid tale of spirituality and the supernatural. In "Moon-Child", the crafty Planter (who may or may not be the Devil in disguise) schemes to take over the island for development. …
The Poetry of Derek Walcott 1948-2013
Av Derek Walcott, Glyn Maxwell
Häftad, 2017
244 kr
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What the Twilight Says
Häftad, 1998
231 kr
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This is the first collection of essays and critical writings by the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature of 1992 and the Caribbean's greatest poet. Derek Walcott has long held a unique position in the world of Caribbean letters and - beyond that - in the literary consciousness of Great Britain, …
Tiepolo's Hound
Häftad, 2001
166 kr
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A magnificent, semi-autobiographical sequence from a Nobel Prize-winning poet, Tiepolo's Hound joins the quests of two Caribbean men: Camille Pissarro - a Sephardic Jew born in 1830 who leaves his native St. Thomas to become a painter in Paris - and the poet himself, who longs to rediscover the …
Selected Poems of Derek Walcott
Häftad, 2009
215 kr
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This new Selected Poems offers an ordered retrospective of the fertile career of Derek Walcott, spanning six decades and drawing on twelve collections. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992, Walcott has, in the words of Seamus Heaney, 'moved with gradually deepening confidence to found …
White Egrets
Häftad, 2011
166 kr
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In White Egrets, Derek Walcott treats his characteristic subjects - the Caribbean's complex colonial legacy, the Western artistic tradition, the blessings and withholdings of old Europe (Andalucia, the Mezzogiorno, Amsterdam), the unaccomodating sublime of the new world, time's cunning passages, …
Midsummer
E-bok, 2011
148 kr
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Most of the poems in this sequence of fifty where written in close succession during one summer in Trinidad. Their principle themes are the relationship of poetry to painting, the stasis of midsummer in the tropics, and the pull of the sea, family and friendship. Walcott records the experience of …
Poetry of Derek Walcott 1948–2013
Häftad, 2019
251 kr
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The Poetry of Derek Walcott 1948-2013 draws from every stage of the poet's storied career. Here are examples of his very earliest work, like 'In My Eighteenth Year', published when the poet himself was still a teenager; his first widely celebrated verse, like 'A Far Cry from Africa', which speaks …
Poetry of Derek Walcott 1948–2013
E-bok, 2014
175 kr
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'He gives us more than himself or 'a world'; he gives us a sense of infinity embodied in the language.' Alongside Joseph Brodsky's words of praise one might mention the more concrete honours that the renowned poet Derek Walcott has received: a MacArthur Fellowship; the Queen's Gold Medal for …
Conversations with Derek Walcott
Av Derek Walcott, William Baer
Häftad, 1996
380 kr
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When Derek Walcott was awarded the Nobel Prize, he was cited for ""a poetic oeuvre of great luminosity, sustained by a historical vision, the outcome of a multicultural commitment."" The lively interviews in this collection reveal Walcott's generous and brilliant intelligence as well as his strong, …
Global Theatre Anthologies: Ancient, Indigenous and Modern Plays from Africa and the Diaspora
Av H.W. Fairman, Duro Ladipo m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
529 kr
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The power of theatrical performance is universal, but the style and concerns of theatre are specific to individual cultures. This volume in the Global Theatre Perspectives series presents a reconstructed ancient performance text, four one-act indigenous African plays and five modern dramas from …
Global Theatre Anthologies: Ancient, Indigenous and Modern Plays from Africa and the Diaspora
Av H.W. Fairman, Duro Ladipo m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
1273 kr
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The power of theatrical performance is universal, but the style and concerns of theatre are specific to individual cultures. This volume in the Global Theatre Perspectives series presents a reconstructed ancient performance text, four one-act indigenous African plays and five modern dramas from …
Global Theatre Anthologies: Ancient, Indigenous and Modern Plays from Africa and the Diaspora
Av H.W. Fairman, Duro Ladipo m. fl.
E-bok, 2023
627 kr
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The power of theatrical performance is universal, but the style and concerns of theatre are specific to individual cultures. This volume in the Global Theatre Perspectives series presents a reconstructed ancient performance text, four one-act indigenous African plays and five modern dramas from …
Global Theatre Anthologies: Ancient, Indigenous and Modern Plays from Africa and the Diaspora
Av H.W. Fairman, Duro Ladipo m. fl.
E-bok, 2023
614 kr
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The power of theatrical performance is universal, but the style and concerns of theatre are specific to individual cultures. This volume in the Global Theatre Perspectives series presents a reconstructed ancient performance text, four one-act indigenous African plays and five modern dramas from …
Poetry of Derek Walcott 1948-2013
Av Derek Walcott, Glyn Maxwell
E-bok, 2014
374 kr
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Discover the inimitable, essential poetry of Derek Walcott, spanning his celebrated six-decade career "He gives us more than himself or ''a world''; he gives us a sense of infinity embodied in the language." Alongside Joseph Brodsky''s words of praise, one might mention the concrete honors that …
Remembrance and Pantomime
A Play
E-bok, 2014
229 kr
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First produced by Joseph Papp''s New York Shakespeare Festival in 1979, Remembrance is the story of an evasively eloquent retired teacher who cannot reconcile his anachronistic love of British culture with the evolution of his family and community in independent Trinidad. "A lyrical, …
