The Haitian Trilogy - by Derek Walcott (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>Plays by the Nobel-laureate, brought together for the first time</b></p><p>In the history plays that comprise <i>The Haitian Trilogy</i>--<i>Henri Christophe, Drums and Colours</i> and <i>The Haytian Earth</i>--Derek Walcott, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, uses verse to tell the story of his native West Indies as a four-hundred-year cycle of war, conquest and rebellion.</p><p>In <i>Henri Christophe</i> and <i>The Haytian Earth, </i> Walcott re-casts the legacy of Haiti's violent revolutionaries--led by Toussaint L'Ouverture, Jean Jacques Dessalines and Henri Christophe--whose rebellion established the first black state in the Americas, but whose cruelty becomes a parable of racial pride and corruption. <i>Drums and Colours, </i> commissioned in 1958 to celebrate the first parliament in Trinidad, is a grand pageant linking the lives of complex, ambiguous heroes: Columbus and Raleigh; Toussaint; and George William Gordon, a martyr of the constitutional era.</p><p>From<i> Henri Christophe's </i>high style to the bracing vernacular of <i>The Haytian Earth, </i> to the epic scale and scope of Drums and Colours, in these plays Walcott, one of our most celebrated poets, carved a place in the modern theater for the history of the West Indies, and a sounding room for his own maturing voice.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Filled with passages of startling poetry...Throughout the trilogy, Walcott's ear for dialect is remarkable." --<b>Booklist</b><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Derek Walcott (1930-2017)</b> was born in St. Lucia, the West Indies, in 1930. His <i>Collected Poems: 1948-1984</i> was published in 1986, and his subsequent works include a book-length poem, <i>Omeros </i>(1990); a collection of verse, <i>The Bounty</i> (1997); and, in an edition illustrated with his own paintings, the long poem <i>Tiepolo's Hound</i> (2000). His numerous plays include <i>The Haitian Trilogy</i> (2001) and <i>Walker and The Ghost Dance</i> (2002). Walcott received the Queen's Medal for Poetry in 1988 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1992.
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