Conversations with Derek Walcott

Publisher Marketing: My calling as a poet is votive, sacred, out-dated, if you will, but it was a cherished vow taken in my young dead father's name, and my life is to honor that vow. I believe this through all adversaries. I have been blessed. I am lucky to have been born in the Caribbean at such a time.

Contributor Bio:  Baer, William WILLIAM BAER has taught film and screenwriting at the University of Evansville for the past fifteen years. He is currently the film critic at Crisis, and for years his work has appeared regularly in Creative Screenwriting. A recent Guggenheim recipient (2007), he has also received a Fulbright (Portugal) and an N. E. A. Creative Writing Grant in fiction. His twelve books include Elia Kazan: Interviews; Luis de Camoes: Selected Sonnets; and The Unfortunates, for which he received the T. S. Eliot Poetry award. Contributor Bio:  Walcott, Derek Derek Walcott was born in St. Lucia in 1930. He is the author of thirteen collections of poetry, seven collections of plays, and a book of essays. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1992.