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Article: Derek Walcott: A Caribbean Life.
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- African American Review
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- June 22, 2002
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Bruce King. Derek Walcott: A Caribbean Life. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2000. 714 pp. $63.95.
In Another Life Derek Walcott wrote, "I had entered the house of literature as a houseboy"; Jamaican poet Mervyn Morris signified on this image in his The Pond when he declared, "And these are my rooms now." The journey that Walcott makes from "houseboy" to master/ruler/owner of the house of literature (the Nobel Laureate is frequently acclaimed the greatest poet writing in the English language) is painstakingly detailed in Bruce King's tome Derek Wakott: A Caribbean Life.
Arranged according to places where Walcott spent the majority of time, the book is in eight ...