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brilliant poet!

>>By barbara (Saturday, 25 Jan 2003 17:57)

he is the most tremendous dramatist the WestIndies has ever produced.EVer since i began to work on him for my final year oro ject at the department of thaeter arts ,university of ibadan,i have found is work a most callengingeffortand ithope that more materials on him will get to me for my project /Thanks BARBARA.YOURS TUNDE ONIKOYI BABSMICKOY @YAHOO.COM

>>By tunde onikoyibabsmickoy@yahoo.com (Monday, 3 Feb 2003 20:15)

WALCOTT IS THE MOST PROLIFIC WRITER OF 21 CENTURY.HIS WORK IS BASED ON A JOURNEY THROUGH TIME AND DIFFERENT PLACES COVERING THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE.THE ADAMIC SITUATION PRESENTED IN DIFFERENT POEMS UNITES HIM WITH THE ESSENTIAL PROBLEMS OF THE HUMAN BEINGS.THE LONELY PERSONAE,EXPRESSING ANGUISH AND LONGING FOR COMPANY IS AN ESSE NTIAL PROBLEM FACED BY MAN SINCE ITS BIRTH.WALCOTT IS AN INTERNATIONAL ARTIST.HE BELONGS TO THE WHOLE HUMANITY.HE HAS FOUND CONTRASTS THROUGH LITERATURE BETWEEN CULTURES AND CIVILIZATIONS.HE IS AN ENCYCLOPAEDIC WRITER.

>>By SAMAN RAI. (Wednesday, 2 Jul 2003 23:35)

As an American of mixed origin: Zapotec, European, I think Derek Walcott in his lovely and long poem Omeros, faces the problem we all have in America: our roots have been erased and we need them to grow whole. Derek has found his roots and he shows us in that poem the way to find them again. For this reason his work is fundamental for all Americans, specially the ones with mixed blood. And most important, he creates beauty when teaching us the ways to our inner soul!

>>By Zapoteco (Sunday, 6 Dec 2009 19:59)

I just read about DW in the Feb 3 issue of the New Yorker. I had heard about his work before only in short references in articles and discussions with people who are better read than I am. I just ordered the latest FSG compilation of his work. Really pleased to read the comments above and hear that he writes about American identity, rootlessness and growing roots.

Maybe I'll check in after I read through his poems.

>>By WLB (Saturday, 15 Feb 2014 06:24)

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