That is the effort, the labour of the Antillean imagination… - Derek Walcott

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That is the effort, the labour of the Antillean imagination, rebuilding its gods from bamboo frames, phrase by phrase.

Derek Walcott

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Derek Alton Walcott (born January 23, 1930 – March 17 2017) was a West Indian poet, playwright, writer and visual artist who wrote mainly in English. Born in Castries, St. Lucia, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992.

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Native Name: Derek Alton Walcott

Alternative Names: Sir Derek Alton Walcott

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William Carlos Williams T. S. Eliot W. H. Auden Denise Levertov Carl Sandburg

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That is the effort, the labour of the Antillean imagination, rebuilding its gods from bamboo frames, phrase by phrase. - Derek Walcott

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