Prodigal

Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott'S The Prodigal Is A Journey Through Physical And Mental Landscapes From Greenwich Village To The Alps Pescara To Milan Germany To Cartagena.But Always In The Music Of Memory Water Abides St. Lucia The Author'S Birthplace And The Living Sea. In This Book Of Poems Derek Walcott Has Created A Sweeping Yet Intimate Epic Of An Exhausted Europe Studded With Church Spires And Mountains Train Stations And Statuary Where The New World Is An Idea A Wavering Map And Where History Subsumes The Natural History Of His Unimportantly Beautiful Island Home. Here The Wanderer Fears That He Has Been Tainted By His Exile That His Life Has Become Untranslatable And That His Craft Itself Is Rooted In Betrayal Of The Vivid Archipelago To Which Like Antaeus He Must Return For The Very Sustenance Of Life.