I was waiting too Matthew. I like a lot of Walcott's work.
Omeros works for me (most of the time) because of the typically
generous, often risky sentences, and the amazing sense of place
that he's always been able to create. It's difficult to rhyme well.
Sometimes he broadcasts the endwords. They become prescriptive
rather than inventive. He's no Muldoon, and yet....
I often return to the early work, to those fineboned lyrical
poems and more narrative poems, where vernacular and intense imagery
are aligned almost seamlessly.
Anthony
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