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Edited by Askold Melnyczuk (Arrowsmith, paperpack)

Publication Date: August 31, 2022

Publisher Marketing: St. Lucian poet Derek Walcott, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992, was also a playwright, a director, a painter, and a beloved teacher. This volume of essays explores all aspects of Walcott’s creative work by writers who knew him as colleagues, friends, and students. Featuring essays and recollections by: Peter Balakian, Robert Bensen, Sven Birkerts, Peter Campion, Rachel DeWoskin, Zayd Ayers Dohrn, Martin Edmunds, Thomas Sayers Ellis, Carolyn Forch, Jonathan Galassi, Dan Hunter, Kirun Kapur, Karl Kirchwey, Adam Kirsch, John Robert Lee, Glyn Maxwell, Askold Melnyczuk, Caryl Phillips, Steven Ratiner, Eva Salzman, Bob Scanlan, Tom Sleigh, Kate Snodgrass, Jacob Strautmann, and Rosanna Warren.