Midsummer

Derek Walcott · 1984 CE · Poem · Caribbean · Contemporary

Fifty-odd undated poems keep a painter's journal across one long season, moving between Port of Spain heat, a Boston classroom and a Roman afternoon without ever announcing the change. The subject is light on a wall, the pressure of middle age, and whether a language can still be trusted after so much use. Loose, unhurried, closer to sketching than to composition, which is precisely the intention.

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