This author’s early collection Epitaph for the Young contains the couplet, “You in the castle of your skin / I the swineherd.” The line “Give back your heart… to the stranger who has loved you all your life” is from this author’s poem “Love After Love.” In this author’s poem “The Mongoose,” he states that he’s been bitten and may become “as dead as Naipaul’s fiction.” A line from this author’s poem “The (*) Swamp” was used to title Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s (“goo-gee wah tee-ahng-o’s”) novel Petals of Blood. This author wrote that “upright man / Seeks his divinity by inflicting pain” in a poem that also states, “The gorilla wrestles with the superman.” That poem by this author ends by asking, “How can I turn from Africa and live?” For 10 points, name this St. Lucian poet of “A Far Cry from Africa” and the Iliad-inspired epic Omeros. ■END■
ANSWER: Derek Walcott [or Derek Alton Walcott] (The quote in the lead-in was used to title George Lamming’s novel In the Castle of My Skin.)
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