Great Regulars: From the recent Selected Poems of Derek Walcott,

edited by Edward Baugh, here is Walcott's title poem from the earlier volume Sea Grapes, published in 1976--many years before Walcott took up Homeric material, transformed to a Caribbean setting, in his book-length poem Omeros:

Sea Grapes

from Robert Pinsky: The Washington Post: Poet's Choice

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