Derek Walcott

In March of last year, Rodrigo Rosales, the director of the Peruvian offices of the international publisher Planeta, got an urgent call from Madrid. Paulo Coelho's people were upset. It seems the Brazilian writer's latest novel, O vencedor está só (published in English as The Winner Stands...

Prelude I, with legs crossed along the daylight, watch The variegated fists of clouds that gather over The uncouth features of this, my prone island. Meanw^hile the steamers which divide horizons prove Us lost; Found only In tourist booklets, behind ardent binoculars; Found in the blue...