The Bounty.

From: Poetry | Date: August 1, 1998| Author: Wiman, Christian | Copyright information

The Bounty, by Derek Walcott. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. $18.00.

Reading Derek Walcott can be like listening to some grand cathedral music that's all tangled up in its own echoes: it's lovely, most definitely, but it can sometimes be tough to tell one note from the next. I know several people who find him too "gorgeous," who sense a hollowness in the high rhetoric. To my mind, the criticism reveals less about Walcott's work than it does about typical American taste in con...

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