Tuesday, November 11, 2008, 7pm, Music Building, $15

D e r e k   W a l c o t t   

Derek Walcott is a recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature. He is the author of numerous volumes of poetry, including Omeros, The Bounty, The Prodigal, Collected Poems 1948-1984, and, most recently, Selected Poems. He is also the author of many volumes of plays, including Dream on Monkey Mountain and Other Plays, Remembrance and Pantomime, The Odyssey, The Haitian Trilogy, and Walker and The Ghost Dance. The New York Times Book Review has said: “Derek Walcott’s virtues as a poet are extraordinary…He could turn his attention on anything at all and make it live with a reality beyond its own…” The Washington Post Book World has praised the work of Derek Walcott for its “unbridled imaginative scope, that feeling of amplitude and sensuous inclusion which we find in Homer—and a few other writers, Lucretius, for instance, or Shakespeare or Whitman—and which Walcott can summon as much as any poet now living.” The New Republic has said: “There is no one writing in English at present who can join power with delicacy the way Walcott can.”

photo of Derek Walcott: Chester Williams