Those poems are "Tiepolo's Hound" and "A Far Cry from Africa.
This author wrotes about a journey to an all-night cafeteria from his hotel in Fayetteville in The Arkansas Testament, and in another, the speaker meets with an old friend in the New Jerusalem Bar. In one of his poems, this author called a dog a "black vowel barking," and in another he wrote about how his gift "led to what? They provided/ no comfort like the French priests' or the Workers Hymn." One of his poems opens by noting that "They stroll on Sundays down Dronningens Street", and in a different poem, this poet notes that "They were expendable as Jews" and wonders how he can turn his back on a title place. Those poems are "Tiepolo's Hound" and "A Far Cry from Africa." In his best known poem, the narrator addresses a figure who "was the crunch of dry leaves, and the washes that echoed from a cave-mouth when the tide had ebbed. FTP, identify this author of "Omeros," a poet from St. Lucia.
This author wrotes about a journey to an all-night cafeteria from his hotel in Fayetteville in The Arkansas Testament, and in another, the speaker meets with an old friend in the New Jerusalem Bar.
Derek {Walcott}