Between Fury And Peace

One of the most important poets of the last hundred years Derek Walcott was also a gifted painter an accomplished and award-winning man-of-the-theatre (a playwright a director and founder of two theaters the Trinidad Theatre Workshop and the Playwrights' Theatre) as well as a devoted teacher. In this volume Walcott's friends collaborators editors and former students-many of them accomplished writers themselves-pay tribute to this multifaceted artist in essays which include memoirs close readings and letters.