{"product_id":"walcott-bounty","title":"Walcott, Derek: The Bounty","description":"\u003cp\u003eFSG, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: March 18, 1998\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Bounty\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ewas the first book of poems Derek Walcott published after winning the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOpening with the title poem, a memorable elegy to the poet's mother, the book features a haunting series of poems that evoke Walcott's native ground, the island of St. Lucia. \"For almost forty years his throbbing and relentless lines kept arriving in the English language like tidal waves,\" Walcott's great contemporary Joseph Brodsky once observed. \"He gives us more than himself or 'a world'; he gives us a sense of infinity embodied in the language.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40817130766359,"sku":"9780374525378","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/files\/images_831b553b-d77f-4c83-9365-71037f36fe46.jpg?v=1748122432","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/walcott-bounty","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}