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Tiepolo's Hound joins the quests of two Caribbean men. Camille Pissarro, a Sephardic Jew born in 1830, leaves his native St. Thomas to follow his vocation as a painter in Paris, while the poet himself longs to rediscover a detail&mdash"a slash of pink on the inner thigh / of a white hound"—of a Venetian painting encountered on an early visit from St. Lucia to New York.

Both journeys take us through a Europe of the mind's eye, in search of a connection between the lost, actual landscape of a childhood and the mythical landscape of empire.

Published with twenty-six full-color reproductions of Derek Walcott's own paintings, Tiepolo's Houndis at once the spiritual biography of a great artist in self-imposed exile, a history in verse of Impressionist painting, and a memoir of the poet's desire to catch the visual world in more than words.

Hardcover. 2000.

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