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Derek Walcott Reads - 1968

Sir Derek Walcott (1930 - 2017) was St Lucia’s premier poet. He was widely recognised as one of the greats, and awarded the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature. This recording comes from 1968, and is provided for reference, research, and educational purposes. The Poet reads: The Train The Gulf Negatives Blues As carefully as old Carlos Williams' cat's foot Cold Spring Harbor To the memory of Frank O'Hara PHOTO CREDIT: Rosalie “Rollie” Thorne McKenna (1918-2003) THUMBNAIL CREDIT: Sparrowdudu - Photo of Two St Lucian Knights: Sir Dunstan St Omer with Sir Derek Walcott in Marigot Bay, St Lucia, circa 2007. AUDIO CREDIT: Hayden, Robert, et al. Robert Earl Hayden and Derek Walcott reading and discussing their poems in the Coolidge Auditorium. 1968. Audio. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/item/94838917/. Copyright Disclaimer: Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Anyone objecting to my use of this material in my video, please comment or contact me directly. About the Author: Derek Alton Walcott was born in Castries, St. Lucia on January 23, 1930. He received a bachelor's degree in French, Latin, and Spanish at the University of the West Indies in 1953. He also began writing plays. His first play, about the revolutionary Haitian leader Henri Christophe, was produced in St. Lucia in 1950. He taught at schools in St. Lucia, Grenada and Jamaica while continuing to write and stage plays. His plays included Lone, Sea at Dauphin, Ti-Jean and His Brothers, Malcochon, and Dream on Monkey Mountain. He later wrote the book and collaborated with the singer and songwriter Paul Simon on the lyrics for The Capeman, a musical about a Puerto Rican gang member who murdered three people in Manhattan in 1959. He was a professor at Boston University from 1981 until retiring in 2007. His metaphorical poetry captured the physical beauty of the Caribbean, the harsh legacy of colonialism, and the complexities of living and writing in two cultural worlds His collections of poetry included In a Green Night, Selected Poems, The Castaway, The Gulf, Sea Grapes, Another Life, Omeros, Tiepolo's Hound, and The Prodigal. He received the Queens Medal for Poetry, the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992, and the T. S. Eliot Prize for his poetry collection, White Egrets, in 2011. He died on March 17, 2017 at the age of 87.