That poem is "A Far Cry from Africa," while a woman named Helen walks down the shore singing "
Along with Paul Simon, this writer based a play on the murderer Salvador Agron entitled The Capeman. This author suggests that you "feat on your life" at the end of a poem in which you sit down to a mirror and greet yourself with elation, "Love After Love." In another play by this author, the prologue begins with Corporal Lestrade bringing in the protagonist, to whom a white woman sang and who is named Makak. In one of this man's poems, Kikuyu flies batten on a bloody pelt and the narrator asks "How can I turn" from the titular place "and live?" That poem is "A Far Cry from Africa," while a woman named Helen walks down the shore singing "Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away" in a modern adapation of an ancient epic set in this author's native St. Lucia. For 10 points, name this author of Dream on Monkey Mountain and Omeros.
Along with Paul Simon, this writer based a play on the murderer Salvador Agron entitled The Capeman.
Derek {Walcott}