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Another Life: Fully Annotated
Derek Walcott, with a critical essay and comprehensive notes by
Edward Baugh and Colbert Nepaulsingh
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This near-definitive study sets a new standard for the kind of meticulous
scholarship that Nobel laureate Derek Walcott’s poetry deserves.
Another Life, Walcott’s masterpiece of autobiography in verse, has
of course been widely praised. D.J. McClatchy, for example, writing
in The New Republic, called it “one of the best long autobiographical
poems in English, with the narrative sweep, the lavish layering of
details, and the mythic resonance of a certain classic.” It is also,
though, an ideal point of entry into Walcott’s work.
The two-hundred pages of detailed notes and commentary offered
in this annotated edition—drawing to a great extent on unpublished
sources—provide an invaluable resource for both teachers and students.
Equally important, the book will enhance the accessibility of
Walcott’s history and poetry for all readers.
Nobel laureate Derek Walcott began writing poetry as a boy, and
by the age of thirty-five had gained international recognition for his
work. Another Life, first published in 1973, took him seven years to
complete. Edward Baugh is emeritus professor of English at the University
of the West Indies, Mona. Colbert Nepaulsingh is professor of
Latin American and Caribbean studies at the University of Albany.
CONTENTS:ANOTHER LIFE. The Divided Child. Homage to Gregorias. A Simple
Flame, The Estranging Sea. Reading ANOTHER LIFE: A Critical Essay. Before the
Poem Came to Be. How the Poem Came to Be. What the Poem Came to Be.
Annotations. Works Cited. Index
December 2003/ca. 360 pages LC: 2003058574
ISBN: 0-89410-868-9 hc £41.95 / $55
Critical Perspectives
on Derek Walcott
edited by Robert D. Hamner
“This is the most comprehensive introduction to the
poet-dramatist . . . the result, clearly, of the editor’s
acknowledged authority as a Walcott scholar ... A
treasure house of criticism.” —CHOICE
1993/482 pages
ISBN: 0-89410-142-0 / pb £20.95 / $27.50
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