Tiepolo's hound
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Tiepolo's hound
Faber and Faber, 2001, c2000
- : pbk
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"First published in the United Kingdom in 2000 by Faber and Faber ... Published in the United States by Farrar, Straus and Giroux ... First published in this paperback edition in 2001 by Faber and Faber"--T.p. verso
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A magnificent, semi-autobiographical sequence from a Nobel Prize-winning poet, Tiepolo's Hound joins the quests of two Caribbean men: Camille Pissarro - a Sephardic Jew born in 1830 who leaves his native St. Thomas to become a painter in Paris - and the poet himself, who longs to rediscover the detail of a painting encountered on an early visit from St. Lucia to New York. Published with 25 full-colour 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.
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