In a Green Night

Derek Walcott · 1962 CE · Poem · Caribbean · Contemporary

A young poet on a small island measures two inheritances he cannot reconcile: the English language he loves and the empire that delivered it, the ruined great houses on the hillsides and the African blood in his own veins. Kenya's uprising and a St Lucian fishing village share the same pages. The collection that made Walcott's name at thirty-two.

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