White Egrets: Poems

From one of the most important and best poets of the 20th Century, comes his fourteenth collection. Derek Walcott, after decades of writing and a Nobel Prize for Literature, has written his newest volume about the language, life and culture of the West Indies. He establishes a dominant voice immediately with early poems and continues that voice throughout. To read Walcott is to wake from a concussion-- the colors are bright and come from a grainy focus to a clear-cut sense of what is happening around you. He is truly a master, no matter how long he has been around or what he decides to conquer, writing-wise. "White Egrets," like any of his collections, is to be cherished and celebrated.