Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1999 14:37:33 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Re: Walcott reference


For the sea is history go to _Frontiers of Caribbean Lit in English_ ed. 
Birbalsingh, St. Martin's Press, 1996.  The book contains a lecture 
Walcott gave as well as the poem; the poem is also in the Collected Poems 
1948- 1984.  Read the lecture if you can get ahold of it, it's full of 
very nice ideas on history and time and memory and empire.  A favorite 
line: "Empires claim time."
Unfortunately the other line doesn't ring any bells.

Good Luck,
John

On Mon, 2 Aug 1999 Clarkejn-AT-aol.com wrote:

> Greetings all:
> Can anyone point me to two Walcott references: the first is the 'sea is 
> history" Which poem is this from? I thought it was in "the schooner flight" 
> but apparently not. I'm also trying to find the dialect line that refers to 
> meeting history on the beach "and she laff at me." Now this last one may be a 
> manufactured Walcottism that I heard at a conference Caribbean literature 
> conference in the Bahamas. iI've been trying to track that one down for 
> months. Any help would be most appreciated.
> 
> Joe (its finally winter again) Clarke
> Ohio
> 
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