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Walcott, Derek
walcott s life and works are traced in Robert D. Hamner, derek walcott, updated ed. Critical Perspectives on derek walcott (1993); and Bruce King, derek
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Extractions: Derek Walcott, 1992 in full DEREK ALTON WALCOTT (b. Jan. 23, 1930, Castries, Saint Lucia), West Indian poet and playwright noted for works that explore the Caribbean cultural experience. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992. Walcott was of mixed black, Dutch, and English descent. He was educated at St. Mary's College, St. Lucia, and at the University of the West Indies in Jamaica. He began writing poetry at an early age, taught at schools in St. Lucia and Grenada, and contributed articles and reviews to periodicals in Trinidad and Jamaica. Productions of his plays began in St. Lucia in 1950, and he studied theatre in New York City in 1958-59. He lived thereafter in Trinidad and the United States, teaching for part of the year at Boston University. Walcott is best known for his poetry, beginning with In a Green Night: Poems 1948-1960 (1962). This book is typical of his early poetry in its celebration of the Caribbean landscape's natural beauty. The verse in Selected Poems The Castaway (1965), and
The Capeman - A Musical By Paul Simon And Derek Walcott
Synopsis and brief history of the Broadway musical by Paul Simon and derek walcott, plus links to cast albums and sheet music.
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Extractions: The Capeman Music: Paul Simon Book: Derek Walcott The Capeman , originally conceived by Paul Simon as a musical in 1989 when he was working on the Rhythm of the Saints album, tells the story of Salvador Agron, one of New York City's most notorious killers. In August of 1959, sixteen-year-old Agron, a member of a street gang known as The Vampires, murdered two teenagers on a New York playground. He became known as the "Capeman" because he wore a long, vampire-like black cape with a red lining while committing the murders. The musical begins with Agron's childhood in Puerto Rico, then follows his family's subsequent move to New York City and explores the boy's unhappy home life, including frequent encounters with his stepfather. Although he is originally more interested in girls than gangs, Agron joins The Vampires after they come to his rescue when he is attacked by another gang. Later, when a friend is badly beaten, The Vampires go out looking for revenge, and although they never locate the rival gang that did the beating, Salvador ends up stabbing two innocent boys to death. Soon captured and sentenced to death, Salvador claims to be unrepentant. The Capeman opened on January 29, 1998, with a cast that featured Marc Anthony (young Agron) and Ruben Blades (older Agron) and a libretto written by Nobel laureate Derek Walcott. However, audiences had to make their way through picket lines because certain members of the community were upset that Simon had chosen Agron for the subject of his play. They felt that the musical was glorifying the life of a murderer, and they were determined to make their opinion felt. In addition, the play was attacked by the critics, especially the New York Times which seemed to launch a campaign against the play. Perhaps hitting the nail on the head, one critic from New York magazine wrote:
Walcott, Derek A. -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
walcott, derek A. (born 1930). A poet and playwright of the West Indies, derek walcott was awarded the Nobel prize for literature in 1992.
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Literary Encyclopedia: Walcott, Derek
derek walcott was born on 23rd January 1930 in Castries, St Lucia. His mother was a teacher who helped him to publish his first volume of poetry,
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Walcott, Derek Walton
walcott, derek Walton. St Lucian writer, poet, and playwright. His work fuses Caribbean and European, classical and contemporary elements, and deals with
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Extractions: Or search the encyclopaedia: Walcott, Derek Walton St Lucian writer, poet, and playwright. His work fuses Caribbean and European, classical and contemporary elements, and deals with the divisions within colonial society and his own search for cultural identity. His works include the long poem Omeros Odyssey Collected Poems were published in 1986. His biography of French impressionist painter Pissarro, , was published in 2000. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992. Walcott was educated at the University of the West Indies. He has taught writing at the universities of Columbia, Yale, and Harvard. He contributed greatly to the development of an indigenous West Indian theatre, and for 25 years ran a theatre in Trinidad. Other plays include Dream on Monkey Mountain (1978), and
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Poet: Derek Walcott - All Poems Of Derek Walcott
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Walcott, Derek
derek walcott was born on St. Lucia, one of the small Windward Islands. In 1992 derek walcott was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Extractions: Derek Walcott was born on St. Lucia, one of the small Windward Islands. His father, a civil servant who painted and wrote poetry, died when Derek and his twin brother were one year old. Their mother, Alix, was a teacher of English. The Walcotts were English-speaking Methodists in an island that was predominantly Roman Catholic and where the common language was a Creole French patois.
Creative Quotations From Derek Walcott (1930-____)
derek walcott in quotations to inspire creative thinking.
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Extractions: The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself. Any serious attempt to try to do something worthwhile is ritualistic. "Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole." I come from a place that likes grandeur; it likes large gestures; it is not inhibited by flourish; it is a rhetorical society; it is a society of physical performance; it is a society of style.
Walcott, Derek. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
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Derek Walcott
walcott, derek, 1930, West Indian dramatist and poet, b. Castries, St. Lucia, grad. Univ. College of West Indies, Mona, Jamaica, 1954.
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Extractions: Reference Desk Encyclopedia Walcott, Derek Walcott, Derek, Often focusing on West Indian folk traditions, Walcott's plays include Dream on Monkey Mountain The Joker of Seville Remembrance: Pantomime A Branch of the Blue Nile The Odyssey (1992), and The Capeman (1997), a musical (and Broadway flop) written with Paul Simon. Walcott's verse collections include the breakthrough In a Green Night (1962), which first brought him to international attention, and the autobiographical Another Life (1973) as well as Sea Grapes Midsummer (1984), and The Bounty (1997). His epic poem Omeros (1990) echoes and reimagines Homer's Iliad and Odyssey as it examines the Caribbean's colonial past and complex present. Tiepolo's Hound Pissarro , and The Prodigal (2004), the poet's memoir of journey and return and a meditation on fame and death, are also book-length narrative poems. Walcott is also a skilled realist painter, whose cover art and illustrations have sometimes accompanied his poetry. He lives in St. Lucia and the United States, where he has taught at several universities. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1992. See biography by B. A. King (2000); W. Baer
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Extractions: BY DEREK WALCOTT ABOUT DEREK WALCOTT [ ESSAYS ] Walcott, Derek. "Derek Walcott talks about The Joker of Seville." Caribbean theatre (Carib, no. 4). Edited by Edward Baugh and Mervyn Morris. Kingston: West Indian Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies, 1986. p. 1-15. Walcott, Derek. "Leaving school (1965)." Critical perspectives on Derek Walcott. Compiled and edited by Robert D. Hamner. Washington, DC: Three Continents Press, 1993. p. 24-32. Walcott, Derek. "Magic industry: book review of Joseph Brodsky's To Urania." The New York Review, November 24, 1988. p. 35-39. Walcott, Derek. "Meanings (1970)." Critical perspectives on Derek Walcott. Compiled and edited by Robert D. Hamner. Washington, DC: Three Continents Press, 1993. p. 45-50. Walcott, Derek. "Meanings." Savacou, no. 2, September 1970. p. 45-51. Walcott, Derek. "Necessity of negritude." Critical perspectives on Derek Walcott. Compiled and edited by Robert D. Hamner. Washington, DC: Three Continents Press, 1993. p. 20-23. Walcott, Derek. "Society and the artist (1957)." Critical perspectives on Derek Walcott. Compiled and edited by Robert D. Hamner. Washington, DC: Three Continents Press, 1993. p. 15-17.
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Extractions: A poem in five books, of circular narrative design, titled with the Greek name for Homer, which simultaneously charts two currents of history: the visible history charted in events the tribal losses of the American Indian, the tragedy of African enslavement and the interior, unwritten epic fashioned from the suffering of the individual in...
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Anecdote - Derek Walcott - Derek Walcott: Caribbean Sonnets
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Derek Walcott - Derek Walcott's Caribbean Nobel, And Other Stories
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