{"product_id":"what-the-twilight-says-derek-walcott-9780374526832","title":"What the Twilight Says: Essays","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe first collection of essays by the Nobel laureate Derek Walcott, \u003ci\u003eWhat the Twilight Says, \u003c\/i\u003edrawn from pieces originally published in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books, The New Republic\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis collection forms a volume of remarkable elegance, concision, and brilliance. It includes Walcott's moving and insightful examinations of the paradoxes of Caribbean culture, his Nobel lecture, and his reckoning of the work and significance of such poets as Robert Lowell, Joseph Brodsky, Robert Frost, Les Murray, and Ted Hughes, and of prose writers such as V. S. Naipaul and Patrick Chamoiseau. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOn every subject he takes up, Walcott the essayist brings to bear the lyric power and syncretic intelligence that made him one of the major poetic voices of our time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Derek Walcott\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0374526834\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780374526832\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Farrar, Strauss \u0026amp; Giroux-3pl\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/25\/1999\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.66lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.80d","brand":"Derek Walcott","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43980907938047,"sku":"9780374526832","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8ec70967-bbf6-4545-af98-511960779f0c.jpg?v=1683252588","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/what-the-twilight-says-derek-walcott-9780374526832","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}