Sunday, March 19, 2017

Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott Dies at 87

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/17/books/derek-walcott-dead-nobel-prize-literature.html?_r=0

https://www.poemhunter.com/derek-walcott/

      The small Caribbean island of St. Lucia never left Derek Walcott, although he traveled and found success in the USA and elsewhere. He fused his Angelo centric education with the joys of the tropical homeland, and created wonderful poems. He will be sorely missed. 

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