Derek Walcott’s Painters

This hefty, impeccably researched volume gives us insight into much more than “Derek Walcott’s painters,” providing a remarkable analysis of a career “sustained by the aim to forge a vision where paint and words would [in Walcott’s words in Another Life] ‘cohere / and finally ignite’ ” (p. 34). A masterful celebration of Walcott’s work, a true gift to Caribbeanists. -- Sally Price, Coquina Key * New West Indian Guide *
An always illuminating, and often brilliant, examination of Walcott's relationship with both art and artists. Fumagalli enables us to recognize Walcott's genius writ large on a broader canvas. -- Caryl Phillips, Yale University
Only a true friend to the man, his verse and his visual art can understand the depth and intricacy of their connections. Fumagalli is that friend, and her rich, magnificent study brims with the light he shone from his island to the world.　 　 　 -- Glyn Maxwell, editor of The Poetry of Derek Walcott, 1948–2013
Fumagalli studies Walcott’s literature and painting – tracing his interests in Caribbean, European and American art and their contribution to his ‘verbal, visual’ explorations. An encyclopedic achievement. -- John Robert Lee, Saint Lucian writer
Fumagalli explores in dazzling detail the extraordinary range of Walcott’s connection to the world of painting and artistic creation, offering, in the process, a clear path to understanding the roots of his poetic creativity. In this inspired, painstakingly researched and persuasively argued study of the centrality of painting and the visual arts in Walcott’s life and work, Fumagalli draws on her deep knowledge and understanding of his poetry and his life to unveil before us how profoundly his poetic eloquence grew out of a sustained, lifelong dialogue with paintings and painters. -- Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert, Vassar College