"Winner of the Nobel Prize in literature" (prtd.)

Includes bibliography (p.511-512) and index.

Includes most of the poems in each of Walcott's collections as selected by the poet, and the complete text of Another Life.

from In a Green Night Poems 1948-1960 [1962] -- Prelude -- As John to Patmos -- A City's Death by Fire -- The Harbour -- from Selected Poems [1964] -- Origins -- from In a Green Night (1962) -- A Far Cry from Africa -- Ruins of a Great House -- Tales of the Islands -- Return to D'Ennery; Rain -- Pocomania -- Parang -- Two Poems on the Passing of an Empire -- Orient and Immortal Wheat -- A Lesson for This Sunday -- Bleecker Street, Summer -- A Letter from Brooklyn -- Brise Marine -- A Sea-Chantey -- The Polish Rider -- The Banyan Tree, Old Year's Night -- In a Green Night -- Islands -- from The Castaway and Other Poems [1965] -- The Castaway -- The Swamp -- Tarpon -- Missing the Sea -- The Glory Trumpeter -- A Map of Europe -- Nights in the Gardens of Port of Spain -- Crusoe's Island -- Coral -- from The Gulf [1970] -- from The Castaway and Other Poems (1965) -- The Flock -- A Village Life -- Goats and Monkeys -- Laventille -- Verandah -- God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen -- Crusoe's Journal -- Lampfall -- Codicil -- from The Gulf and Other Poems (1969) -- Mass Man -- Exile -- Homage to Edward Thomas -- The Gulf -- Elegy -- Blues -- Air -- Guyana -- Che -- Negatives -- Landfall, Grenada -- Homecoming: Anse La Raye -- Star -- Cold Spring Harbor -- Love in the Valley -- Nearing Forty -- The Walk -- Another Life [1973] -- The Divided Child -- Homage to Gregorias -- A Simple Flame -- The Estranging Sea -- from Sea Grapes [1976] -- Sea Grapes -- Sunday Lemons -- New World -- Adam's Song.