A magnificent, semi-autobiographical sequence from a Nobel Prize-winning poet, Tiepolo's Hound joins the quests of two Caribbean men: Camille Pissarro - a Sephardic Jew born in 1830 who leaves his native St. Thomas to become a painter in Paris - and the poet himself, who longs to rediscover the detail of a painting encountered on an early visit from St. Lucia to New York. Published with 25 full-colour reproductions of Derek Walcott's own paintings, the poem is at once the spiritual biography of a great artist in self-imposed 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.
ISBN: | 9780571209125 |
Publication date: | 3rd September 2001 |
Author: | Derek Walcott Estate |
Publisher: | Faber & Faber |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 176 pages |
Genres: |
Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards) Poetry by individual poets |