Question

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 (15[1])Love.” (15[1])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?” (10[1])For 10 points, name this St. Lucian poet of “A Far Cry from Africa” and the Iliad-inspired epic Omeros. ■END■ (0[1])

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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