{"product_id":"prodigal-9780374530167","title":"Prodigal","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNobel Laureate Derek Walcott's\u003ci\u003e The Prodigal\u003c\/i\u003e is a journey through physical and mental landscapes, from Greenwich Village to the Alps, Pescara to Milan, Germany to Cartagena. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut always in \"the music of memory, water,\" abides St. Lucia, the author's birthplace, and the living sea. In this book of poems, Derek Walcott has created a sweeping yet intimate epic of an exhausted Europe studded with church spires and mountains, train stations and statuary, where the New World is an idea, a \"wavering map,\" and where History subsumes the natural history of his \"unimportantly beautiful\" island home. Here, the wanderer fears that he has been tainted by his exile, that his life has become untranslatable, and that his craft itself is rooted in betrayal of the vivid archipelago to which, like Antaeus, he must return for the very sustenance of life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e St. Martins Press-3PL\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/21\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780374530167\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 112\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.32lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.26h x 5.49w x 0.33d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew Yorker (The)\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/23\/2006 pg. 28\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Derek Walcott","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42737715511477,"sku":"9780374530167","price":13.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_8086e5a8-342f-4caa-a83c-db2d7a2274ad.jpg?v=1676384977","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/prodigal-9780374530167","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}