Date: Tue, 03 Aug 1999 15:29:28 -0700
Subject: Re: Walcott reference


The line "The sea is History" is from a poem of that title. It's in the
first stanza. I think you'll find the poem in "Collected Poems." I have a
copy of the poem in front of me with the page number 364, but I did not
write the citation on it.
Angus Dunstan
At 02:45 PM 8/2/99 EDT, you 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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