White Egrets

Summary

A late masterwork from a Nobel Laureate, this collection turns on the pleasures and melancholies of ageing, using the light and landscape of St. Lucia as a ground on which to meditate on love, art, and the passing of time. Walcott's style at its finest—lush, formal, steeped in both the English lyric tradition and the Creole cultures of the Caribbean—is here compressed into some of the most beautiful poems of his late career. The collection carries the weight of a long life held up to the light.