Word: walcott
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West Indian poet Derek Walcott, a former visiting Harvard professor who departed the University in a cloud of controversy 10 years ago, won the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature yesterday for his writings evoking the cultural mix of the Caribbean...
...visiting professor for the 1982 spring semester, Walcott was charged with sexual harassment by one of his first-year students, whose name was never released...
...sense of indebtedness to other works and to other writers, to teachers and students. There are footnotes in his speech; he reminds me to ask him about the poets he has read, and quotes a friend in Adams House as carefully he would such poets as Seamus Heaney, Derek Walcott, or Rita Dove. He is almost fastidious in acknowledging his influences. "I'm not a T.S. Eliot--I know where I came from," he says. "A lot of different places," But at the same time, he distances himself from labels of membership...
This year at Harvard, Terada teaches Afro-Am's junior humanities tutorial, a task which allows her to share with students her expertise in Carribean post-colonial poetry. Terada takes a particular interest in the work of Carribean poet Derek Walcott, and espouses a multicultural approach to the study of North and South American literature. In fact, Terada is a poet herself, applying her scholarly work to the creative process...
...guitar handy, but there are books of poetry (Wallace Stevens, Philip Larkin) open all around the living room, within easy reach, like so many cerebral snacks. In case this sounds a little rarefied for a rock guy -- even a rock guy who sang a few tunes to Derek Walcott's poetry class at Boston University -- it should be added that Simon also enjoys listening to music as various as Miles Davis, Prince and Public Enemy. It's not always the sounds of silence up there on Central Park West...