This writer wrote of "parentheses" that "lock like a gate, 1917 to 1977" in an elegy for Robert Lowell entitled "RTSL."
This writer wrote of "parentheses" that "lock like a gate, 1917 to 1977" in an elegy for Robert Lowell entitled "RTSL." A character named Shabine who says of himself, "either I'm nobody or I'm a nation," narrates this author's 11-part poem entitled "The Schooner Flight." The narrator of another poem dreams of a "black woman, shawled like a buzzard," who "knocked at the door of his dream," saying "Let me in... I am the Revolution. I am the darker, the older America." That poem appears along with "The Sea is History" as the title piece in the collection The Star Apple Kingdom. Another of his poems describes how "Statistics justify and scholar seize/ the salients of colonial policy," and after noting the struggle between "the gorilla... and the superman," asks "Where shall I turn, divided to the vein?" FTP, identify this poet who asked "How can I turn from" the title continent "and live?" in his poem "A Far Cry From Africa," and also wrote Tiepolo's Hound. 
This writer wrote of "parentheses" that "lock like a gate, 1917 to 1977" in an elegy for Robert Lowell entitled "RTSL."
Derek Alton Walcott