{"product_id":"9780374526832","title":"What the Twilight Says : Essays","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eWhat the Twilight Says\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Derek Walcott\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first collection of essays by the Nobel laureate.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDerek Walcott has been publishing essays in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books, The New Republic\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere for more than twenty years. \u003ci\u003eWhat the Twilight Says\u003c\/i\u003e collects these pieces to form a volume of remarkable elegance, concision, and brilliance. It includes Walcott's moving and insightful examinations of the paradoxes of Caribbean culture, his Nobel lecture, and his reckoning of the work and significance of such poets as Robert Lowell, Joseph Brodsky, Robert Frost, Les Murray, and Ted Hughes, and of prose writers such as V. S. Naipaul and Patrick Chamoiseau. On every subject he takes up, Walcott the essayist brings to bear the lyric power and syncretic intelligence that have made him one of the major poetic voices of our time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“There is no one writing in English at present who can join power with delicacy the way Walcott can.” —\u003ci\u003eSven Birkerts, The New Republic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Walcott is a kingfisher critic, with flashing insights, an original who writes a profound, poetic prose . . . Derek Walcott's words go from strength to strength.” —\u003ci\u003ePaula Burnett, The Times (London)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner Nobel Prize in Literature (1992), Nobel Prize For Literature (1992)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9780374526832\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40675758211278,"sku":"9780374526832","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_8c71b912-21f7-413f-a96c-0fde4c9b1ae3.jpg?v=1639971715","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9780374526832","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}