Expect the Unexpected
As a poet, Derek Walcott is a jack-of-all-trades, writing lyric, narrative, and epic poetry. And did we mention that he’s also a painter and an award-winning playwright? According to fellow poet Joseph Brodsky, Walcott “can be naturalistic, expressionistic, surrealist, imagistic, hermetic, confessional—you name it.” In “Love After Love,” we get a glimpse of the poet’s surrealist side. For some of this other approaches to poetry, check out “Bleecker Street, Summer” or these excerpts from his take on The Iliad, called Omeros.