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Written in the twilight of his life, David Walcott's White Egrets is a collection of poems as he contemplates his experiences and muses on what's to come. A native of St. Lucia, Walcott won the 1992 Nobel Prize for Literature and is considered one of the greatest poets of modern times. His writings were introduced to be me a native St. Lucian, proud of St. Lucia's contribution to the literary world. White Egrets is rather elegiac in its approach:
"The elegance of those orange-billed egrets,
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