{"product_id":"9781466880481","title":"Tiepolo's Hound","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the Nobel laureate, a book-length poem on two educations in painting, a century apart\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Between me and Venice the thigh of a hound;\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003emy awe of the ordinary, because even as I write,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003epaused on a step of this couplet, I have never found\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eits image again, a hound in astounding light.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTiepolo's Hound \u003c\/i\u003ejoins the quests of two Caribbean men: Camille Pissarro--a Sephardic Jew born in 1830 who leaves his native St. Thomas to follow his vocation as a painter in Paris--and the poet himself, who longs to rediscover 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished with twenty-five full-color reproductions of Derek Walcott's own paintings, the poem is at once the spiritual biography of a great artist in self-imposed 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47157863416048,"sku":"9781466880481","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781466880481_p0.jpg?v=1769892051","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781466880481","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}