A Ghetto Nerd’s Notebook: A Misanthropic Appraisal Of Caesar
10 min readAug 14, 2022
On Derek Walcott.
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If-as John Updike once said-“Fame is the mask that eats the face,” one can argue that Derek Walcott’s casing began at his boyhood house. In book 2 of Another Life, his autobiographical epic poem, he arrives at his old door an acclaimed yet struggling poet. At the sight of its remnants, the memories overwhelm him
