15145: Slavin: On Derek Walcott (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: PSlavin@unicefusa.org

In St. Lucia in January, I came across:

"The Haitian Trilogy,"  by Derek Walcott, 434 pgs, FSG, 2002, ISBN:
0-374-52813-6.

It contains three plays: "Henri Christophe, Drums and Colours[sic]," and
"The Haitian Earth." I missed its release, and glad to have it.

Walcott also has several paintings inspired by Haiti -- at an exhibition,
attended by Walcott and his houseguest Arthur Miller, I had a brief chat
with DW about his realist painting of Toussaint prisoned in France -- I was
the young gender to get much of out him,  but clearly in his younger days
DW had a high interest in Haiti, like Orson Welles and Truman Capote.

Patrick
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