Example sentences for: walcott

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  • The eagerly awaited but troubled collaboration of singer-songwriter Paul Simon, poet Derek Walcott, and choreographer Mark Morris is judged to be worse than expected.

  • Wistful, wry, at times valedictory (the Monet poem playfully offers the poet's own epitaph), The Bounty is one of Walcott's most inviting volumes, incorporating some of his best work since The Star-Apple Kingdom of 1979.

  • Walcott's faith, as expressed in The Bounty , is finally a painter's faith, that the poet's job is "to write of the light's bounty on familiar things."

  • Walcott's keen eye is drawn repeatedly to the complementary blues and oranges of his native landscape: "there, against the indigo-blue Santa Cruz/ mountains, the immortelle ignites its branches with orange/ blossoms, however briefly, while the incredible blue is/ as indifferent as ever."

  • Walcott trained to be a painter--like his schoolteacher father, who died when Walcott was a baby--and The Bounty is his most painterly book, in method and theme.


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