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One of this author's poems includes such instructions like "Give wine. Give bread... peel your own image from the mirror. Sit. Feast on your life." He described how "the adulterer hear[s] Nausicaa's name in every gull's outcry" in a poem ending "The classics can console. But not enough." Another of this author's poems consists of a tour through the "stones only, the disjecta membra" of a place where "a smell of dead limes quickens in the nose/The leprosy of empire." This author of "Love after Love" and "Sea Grapes" is best known for a poem in which Maud, wife of Major Plunkett, dies of cancer. This author wrote "Ruins of a Great House" and an epic poem about the fishermen Achille and Hector, who represent characters from the Iliad. For 10 points, name this author of Omeros, a poet from St. Lucia.
One of this author's poems includes such instructions like "Give wine.
Derek Alton Walcott