Tag Archives: Derek Walcott
Suzan-Lori Parks, Diane Paulus, Deidre Murray : Three Women Collaborating
October 9, 2014 It won the 2012 Tony for the best musical revival, but the New York Times didn’t much like it, missing Gershwin’s full operatic scores in this “thinned-out” and “heavily-cut” version. Having no deep connection to the original, … Continue reading
Posted in adaptation, African-American music, collaboration, Contemporary literature, jazz
Tagged Another Country, Bill Kirchner, Billy Strayhorn, Derek Walcott, Diane Paulus, Duke Ellington, Frank Sinatra, George Gershwin, Getting Mother's Body, Gil Evans, James Baldwin, Miles Davis, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Nelson Riddle, Paul Simon, Porgy and Bess, Suzan-Lori Parks, The Capeman, The Red Letter Plays, William Faulkner
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Natasha Trethewey, Emily Dickinson: Partners in Crime
June 12, 2013 In her interview in the LA Review of Books (just out), Natasha Trethewey mentions only Derek Walcott and Robert Penn Warren as poets who touch her at moments of mass fatalities. But I’d like to think that … Continue reading
Posted in African-American literature, contemporary poetry, Crime Fiction, Nineteenth-century literature, print medium, Universities
Tagged Beyond Katrina, Derek Walcott, Emily Dickinson, Emily Dickinson is Dead, Gulfport Mississippi, Jane Langton, Joanne Dobson, Los Angeles Review of Books, Mary Willis Walker, Natasha Trethewey, Quieter than Death, Robert Penn Warren, Zero at the Bone
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