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...then began the real business of the evening by reciting "Alphabet Soup," a poem about his experiences with language, letters and learning...
...Poem 50 lines. My Freshman Year...
...Poem 150 lines. Gentleness...
What these two isolated facts have to do with each other is made resplendently luminous in Walcott's Tiepolo's Hound (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 164 pages; $30), a long narrative poem with a number of stories on its mind. One is what Walcott modestly calls his "inexact and blurred biography" of the painter Pissarro, a Sephardic Jew whose ancestors were driven out of Portugal, who chose to practice his art in Europe rather than the raw island paradise of his birth. A parallel account involves Walcott: his boyhood fascination with the reproductions of European masterpieces he found in books...
...Lowry explained, her teacher had actually added a line to the end of the poem, deepening its meaning...