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Conversations with Derek Walcott.(Review)
From:
MELUS
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June 22, 1998| Author:
Gidmark, Jill B.
| COPYRIGHT 1998 The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnics Literature of the United States. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information
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Conversations with Derek Walcott. Ed. William Baer. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 1996. xv + 211 pages. $16.95 paper.
What a useful service William Baer has provided to both students of contemporary literature in general and to aficionados of Derek Walcott in particular, in publishing a collection of interviews with the 1992 winner of the Nobel Prize for literature. A moderately priced paperback, the collection offers unique glimpses of Walcott's life and ...
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