17 / VII / 2023
“Poetry is empty without
discipline, without piety,
he cautions somewhere,
even his lesser rhymes amount
to more than wrought praise but amplify
his poems as high prayer.”
—Major Jackson, ‘In Memory of Derek Alton Walcott’
“Poetry is empty without
discipline, without piety,
he cautions somewhere,
even his lesser rhymes amount
to more than wrought praise but amplify
his poems as high prayer.”
—Major Jackson, ‘In Memory of Derek Alton Walcott’
Kern Samuel
A good rain is coming, 2022
Acrylic on sewn canvas
27 x 25 in (68.6 x 63.5 cm)