A poem by this author instructs "Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart / to itself, to the stranger who has loved you.
A poem by this author instructs "Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart / to itself, to the stranger who has loved you." In a poem by this author, "the worm, colonel of carrion, cries: / 'Waste no compassion on these separate dead!'" This poet of "Love after Love" described being poisoned by the blood of both the gorilla and the superman and mentioned "the English tongue I love" in a poem that ends by asking, (*)  "How can I face such slaughter and be cool? / How can I turn from Africa and live?" In a poem by this author, Philoctete  (fee-lock-TET)  hangs out at Ma Kilman's No Pain Café, and the fishermen Achille (ah-SHEEL)  and Hector compete for Helen. For 10 points, name this poet of "A Far Cry from Africa" and Omeros , a Saint Lucian Nobel laureate who died in 2017.
A poem by this author instructs "Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart / to itself, to the stranger who has loved you.
Derek (Alton)  Walcott