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Walker and the Ghost Dance (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780374528140)
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xTwo dazzling dramas on American themes from the Nobel laureate Derek Walcott, Walker and Ghost Dance.
On a cold winter's day on the Dakota plains, Catherine Weldon receives a caller, Kicking Bear, bringing news of Indian rebellion. In the fort nearby, a tiny community splinters apart over how to react. In Ghost Dance, first performed in 1989, Walcott turns a story with a foregone conclusion--Sitting Bull and his Sioux followers will die at the hands of the Army and Indian agents--into a portrait of life at a crossroads of American history. In Walker, an opera first performed in 1992 and revised for its revival in 2001, Walcott shifts his attention east, taking for his subject David Walker, the nineteenth-century black abolitionist. In Walcott 's hands Walker becomes a classical hero for his people: a leader who is also a poet.Author: Derek Walcott
ISBN-10: 0374528144
ISBN-13: 9780374528140
Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl
Language: English
Published: 08/15/2002
Pages: 258
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 10.20h x 4.42w x 0.68d
Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 07/01/2002 pg. 81
Booklist 08/01/2002 pg. 1912
Library Journal 07/15/2002
By Derek Walcott
xDerek Walcott (1930-2017) was born in St. Lucia, the West Indies, in 1930. His Collected Poems: 1948-1984 was published in 1986, and his subsequent works include a book-length poem, Omeros (1990); a collection of verse, The Bounty (1997); and, in an edition illustrated with his own paintings, the long poem Tiepolo's Hound (2000). His numerous plays include The Haitian Trilogy (2001) and Walker and The Ghost Dance (2002). Walcott received the Queen's Medal for Poetry in 1988 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1992.
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