The Star-Apple Kingdom
Most of the poems in this new collection follow the arc of the Caribbean archipelago from Trinidad to Jamaica. The reader is taken on an odyssey, beginning with The Schooner Flight, in which a poor mulatto sailor abandons his life in Trinidad, sailing northward to meet his fate, and ending with The Star-Apple Kingdom, a long poem whose axis is the crucial attempt to establish a new social order in Jamaica without sacrificing democracy. Other poems speak through various personae: Koenig of the River marks the end of a saga of nineteenth-century exploration and conquest through the Conradian image of a missionary-soldier whose comrades have bee…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4668-8046-7
- EAN: 9781466880467
- Produktnummer: 22473589
- Verlag: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 57 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 122 KB
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Derek Walcott
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