Word: walcott
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Fortunate Traveller moves between the civilized U.S. and subjugated, sunstruck islands. Walcott can find a lasting home in neither place. In the U.S. he catches signs of "the galloping hysterical abhorrence of my race." In Port of Spain, he discovers that "junta and coup d'état, the newest Latino mood/ broods on the balcony." He takes on the identity of Spoiler, a dead man allowed briefly to leave hell and revisit his old haunts. He improvises, calypso style...
Such resignation recurs throughout the book: things are not going to get better, anywhere. But individual poems shimmer with exotic rhythms and flash with tropical colors. Walcott's circular pilgrimage is painful and moving; it also traverses some enchanting scenery...
...FORTUNATE TRAVELLER by Derek Walcott; Farrar Straus Giroux; 99 pages; $11.95. Travel brochures sensibly omit certain details about the Caribbean. In his sixth book of poems, Derek Walcott corrects the sunny picture...
...Walcott, 52, was born in St. Lucia and still lives part of each year in Trinidad. He brings a highly developed poetic skill to bear on underdeveloped areas. His point of view is both privileged and painful: "I accept my function as a colonial upstart at the end of an empire, a single, circling, homeless satellite." The upstart has not lacked for recognition; last year Walcott received an award from the John D. and Catherine MacArthur Foundation that will yield him $48,000 annually for five years. Yet estrangement is not a matter of finances: "I am thinking...
However, if large numbers of students stop eating or drinking a product, "Obviously we're not going to put out food that's not going to be eaten," Benjamin H. Walcott, assistant director of food services, said this week, adding, "I guess that's the best way for students to express their opinion...