eCognoscente - New York - Derek Walcott - White Egrets!

ecognoscente.com — We’ve been reading Derek Walcott’s beautiful slim book of stalking sentences, the lovely White Egrets. The Nobel-Prize winner just turned 80, and this book is, as the New York Times says, "...an old man’s book, craving one more day of light and warmth.” But doing so with such controlled delight in the English language (..my pen’s beak, Jun 24, 2010 View in Crawl 4