Tiepolo's Hound: A Reading by Derek Walcott

Trinidad resident Derek Walcott won the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature. Walcott has published twenty volumes of poetry and is also a published playwright. Series: "Artists on the Cutting Edge" [3/2001] [Humanities] [Show ID: 5593]

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[manlinc]

Derek Walcott is Saint Lucian. He lived in Trinidad for a while but please don't forget that he is Saint Lucian.

[jazzmanEE]

essentual beauty in his poems.thanx for posting!

[Simma7]

I love how he has a very subtle sense of humor lol

[mvlturner]

One of the great poets of our time. My copy has no pictures though -- pity, I love his paintings.

[ericjohnthetiger]

Astonishing!

[whatevsnig]

damn that's fucking great

[thedoubtfuls]

Wrenching. A clip for posterity of the poet who speaks most to me. The white hound could be Giovanni Battista Tiepolo's Finding the Moses.

[trinitychica]

Thanks for posting this video. It was fantastic to here poetry from the poet's lips