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From the Nobel laureate, a resplently luminous (Paul Gray, Time) 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 foundits image again, a hound in astounding light.Tiepolo's Hound joins the quests of two Caribbean men. Camille Pissarro, born in 1830, leaves his native St. Thomas to follow his vocation as a painter in Paris. The poet himself hunts for 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-six of Derek Walcott's own paintings, the poem is at once the spiritual biography of a great artist in self-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.
| ISBN-13 | 9780374527792 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0374527792 |
| Weight | 1.18 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 7.00 x 0.50 x 9.25 In |
| List Price | $16.00 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 208 pages |
| Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
| Published On | 2001-05-15 |
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