Tiepolo's Hound

A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Full white cloth boards. 164 pages. Published with 26 full-color reproductions of Derek Walcott's own paintings. Bookstore price sticker on dust jacket.

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From the Nobel laureate, a book-length poem on two educations in painting, a century apart
""Between me and Venice the thigh of a hound;"
"my awe of the ordinary, because even as I write, "
"paused on a step of this couplet, I have never found"
"its image again, a hound in astounding light.""
"Tiepolo's Hound "joins the quests of two Caribbean men: Camille Pissarro--a Sephardic Jew born in 1830 who leaves his native St. Thomas to follow his vocation as a painter in Paris--and the poet himself, who longs to rediscover a detail--"a slash of pink on the inner thigh / of a white hound"--of a Venetian painting encountered on an early visit from St. Lucia to New York. Both journeys take us through a Europe of the mind's eye, in search of a connection between the lost, actual landscape of a childhood and the mythical landscape of empire.
Published with twenty-five full-color reproductions of Derek Walcott's own paintings, the poem is at once the spiritual biography of a great artist in self-imposed exile, a history in verse of Impressionist painting, and a memoir of the poet's desire to catch the visual world in more than words.

Product Info

ISBN: 0374105871

ISBN-13: 9780374105877

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Year: 2000

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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