Derek Walcott, Who Wrote Of Caribbean Beauty And Bondage, Dies At 87
The Nobel Prize winner celebrated his Caribbean homeland and described its brutal colonial history. "You didn't make yourself a poet," he said. "You entered a situation in which there was poetry."
Derek Walcott's work explored the beauty of his Caribbean homeland and its brutal colonial history. The prolific, Nobel Prize-winning poet and playwright died Friday at his home in St. Lucia. He was 87.
Walcott wrote dozens of books of poetry and plays, among them his epic poem and his Obie-winning drama,
