num_pages: 120
description: Derek Walcott's eighth collection of poems, The Arkansas Testament , is divided into two parts--"Here," verse evoking the poet's native Caribbean, and "Elsewhere." It opens with six poems in quatrains whose memorable, compact lines further Walcott's continuous effort to crystallize images of the Caribbean landscape and people. For several years, Derek Walcott has lived mainly in the United States. "The Arkansas Testament," one of the book's long poems, is a powerful confrontation of changing allegiances. The poem's crisis is the taking on of an extra history, one that challenges unquestioning devotion.
language: English
title: The Arkansas Testament
titlecomplete: The Arkansas Testament
genres: Post Colonial, Nobel Prize, Poetry
ratings_count: 114
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux