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DARK HORSEY SAYS- Two Carribean men- Camille Pissarro, a Sephardic Jew leaves his native St. Thomas to be a painter in Paris, while Walcott recalls & tries to recapture a particular slash of pink on a hound in a Venetian painting he saw in New York on an early trip from the Carribean. Both journeys take take us through a Europe of the mind's eye, seeking a connection between the lost, actual landscape of childhood & the mythical landscape of Empire.Says Al Alvarez-"Cool & measure & beautiful… Walcott is doiung in words for his beloved St. Lucia what Pissarro did in paint for the French landscaper - fixing it in time with 'lyrical, light precision', modestly & without fuss." |
