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Tiepolo's hound
Tiepolo's hound, From the Nobel laureate, a book-length poem on two educations in painting, a century apart
Between me and Venice the thigh of a hound;
my awe of the ordinary, because even as I write,
paused on a step of this couplet, I have never found
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Tiepolo's hound, From the Nobel laureate, a book-length poem on two educations in painting, a century apart Between me and Venice the thigh of a hound; my awe of the ordinary, because even as I write, paused on a step of this couplet, I have never found its i, Tiepolo's hound
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  • Tiepolo's hound
  • Written by author Derek Walcott
  • Published by New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000., 2000/04/01
  • From the Nobel laureate, a book-length poem on two educations in painting, a century apart "Between me and Venice the thigh of a hound; my awe of the ordinary, because even as I write, paused on a step of this couplet, I have never found its i
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From the Nobel laureate, a book-length poem on two educations in painting, a century apart

"Between me and Venice the thigh of a hound;

my awe of the ordinary, because even as I write,

paused on a step of this couplet, I have never found

its image again, a hound in astounding light."

Tiepolo's Hound joins the quests of two Caribbean men: Camille Pissarro—a Sephardic Jew born in 1830 who leaves his native St. Thomas to follow his vocation as a painter in Paris—and the poet himself, who longs to rediscover a detail—"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-five full-color reproductions of Derek Walcott's own paintings, the poem is 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.


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my awe of the ordinary, because even as I write,
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Between me and Venice the thigh of a hound;
my awe of the ordinary, because even as I write,
paused on a step of this couplet, I have never found
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my awe of the ordinary, because even as I write,
paused on a step of this couplet, I have never found
its i, Tiepolo's hound

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