A COSMOPOLITAN LAWYER: JUST SOME READINGS I HAVE ENJOYED LATELY

First, this blog replaces my previous blog, thecosmoplitanlawyerblogspot.com . Second, unlike that earlier blog, the present one is primarily meant as a record of my readings. It is not meant to suggest that others will be or should be interested in what I read. And third, in a sense, it is a public diary of one who is an alien in his own American culture. A person who feels at home just about anywhere, except in his birthplace . . . America.

Friday, April 25, 2014

DEREK WALCOTT

Derek Walcott, The Poetry of Derek Walcott 1948-2013, selected by Glyn Maxwell (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2014) ("[Y]ou too could succumb to a helpless shrug that says, 'God! the sad magic that is the hope of black people . . .'." Id. at 433. Also see Teju Cole, "Poet of the Caribbean," NYT Book Review, Sunday, 2/23/2014.).