The Fortunate Traveller

Derek Walcott · 1981 CE · Poem · Caribbean · Contemporary

The book divides itself into North and South, and the traveller between them is an aid administrator flying famine statistics out of Africa in a first-class seat, his comfort the fee for other people's hunger. New England snow, a Roman winter and a Caribbean noon meet the same eye. Walcott's most divided collection, written from the American teaching posts that paid for it.

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