Tiepolo's Hound
From the Nobel laureate Derek Walcott, a book-length poem on two educations in painting, a century apart
"Between me and Venice the thigh of a hound;
my awe of the ordinary, because even as I write,
paused on a step of this couplet, I have never found
its image again, a hound in astounding light."
Tiepolo''s Hound joins the quests of two Caribbean men: Camille Pissarro--a Sephardic Jew born in 1830 who...
From the Nobel laureate Derek Walcott, a book-length poem on two educations in painting, a century apart
"Between me and Venice the thigh of a hound;
my awe of the ordinary, because even as I write,
paused on a step of this couplet, I have never found
its image again, a hound in astounding light."
Tiepolo''s Hound joins the quests of two Caribbean men: Camille Pissarro--a Sephardic Jew born in 1830 who...
