Tiepolo's Hound

Seitenzahl:

208

Gewicht:

499 g

Erschienen bei:

Farrar Strauss & Giroux

Kurzbeschreibung

Tiepolo's Hound joins the quests of two Caribbean men. Camille Pissarro, born in 1830, leaves his native St. Thomas to follow his vocation as a painter in Paris. The poet himself hunts for a detail -- "a slash of pink on the inner thigh/of a white hound" -- of a Venetian painting encountered on an early visit from St. Lucia to New York. Both journeys take us through a Europe of the mind's eye, in search of a connection between the lost, actual landscape of a childhood and the mythical landscape of empire.<P>Published with twenty-six of Derek Walcott's own paintings, the poem is at once the spiritual biography of a great artist in self-exile, a history in verse of Impressionist painting, and a memoir of the poet's desire to catch the visual world in more than words.

Portrait

Derek Walcott, geb. 1930 auf Saint Lucia/Trinidad in der Karibik, lebt und arbeitet in seinem Geburtsort und in Boston/USA. Der Schriftsteller und Maler ist Professor an der Boston University und leitet das Playwright Theatre. 1992 wurde er mit dem Nobelpreis für Literatur ausgezeichnet.

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