{"product_id":"9781466880351","title":"Gulf and Other Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eAs his title suggests, Derek Walcott's new poems--while making beautiful use of Caribbean imagery--are concerned with themes of isolation and the achievement of identity through loneliness. When it was published in England in 1969, \u003ci\u003eThe Gulf\u003c\/i\u003e was awarded the Cholmondeley prize for poetry. As the London \u003ci\u003eTimes\u003c\/i\u003e wrote, \"His new collection is as noble and stern and grand as Milton...Walcott writes with a tropical glory of images; handles his huge pyrotechnic vocabulary with iron-discipline , verve and nerve...His glittering intelligence and luxurious command of sensation fuse in a mastery of images which burst in the brain like balls of phosphorescent fire.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe subject of the title poem is the alienation and isolation of an America\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ewhere filling-station signs\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eproclaim the Gulf, an air, heavy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e    with gas\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003esickens the state, from Newark\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e    to New Orleans.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe central figure in the Caribbean poems is a Robinson Crusoe-like castaway, who \"\u003ci\u003elearns again the self-creating peace of islands.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47163844460784,"sku":"9781466880351","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781466880351_p0.jpg?v=1769892049","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781466880351","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}