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Article: Derek Walcott: A Caribbean Life.(Book review)
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- April 1, 2007
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Bruce King. Derek Walcott: A Caribbean Life. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2000. Pp ix, 714. $39.95 cloth.
Bruce King's extensive biography of Nobel Prize winning poet, playwright, journalist, and painter Derek Walcott is subtitled with the indefinite article "a." It is appropriate in that any life is subject to a range of readings. Furthermore, King's precaution is well taken because Walcott's frequent autobiographical disclosures in plays, poetry, prose, and interviews make fair use of poetic license. Walcott reveals truth about himself as he perceives it, but truth is protean and the image that emerges from his work and from his life is a faceted versions of the creative ...