WHITE EGRETS HC – DEREK WALCOTT ESTATE

In White Egrets , Derek Walcott treats his characteristic subjects – the Caribbean s complex colonial legacy, the Western artistic tradition, the blessings and withholdings of old Europe (Andalucia, the Mezzogiorno, Amsterdam), the unaccommodating sublime of the new world, time s cunning passages, the poet s place in all of this – with a passionate intensity and drive that recall his greatest work. Through the systolic and mesmerizing repetition of theme and imagery, Walcott carries his surf-like cadence from poem to poem, and from sequence to sequence in this celebratory and close-knit collection.