Egrets

/ Accept it all with level sentences, Walcott says in White Egrets.

Poetry: a beautiful renaissance 2011

It was left to another ranger, Marlena Giga, who was passing by when she spotted her co-workers, now mesmerized by several Snowy and Great Egrets investigating a marsh at Turtle Cove, to acquaint me with Pelham Park's four-legged denizens.

Birding on the City's Far Edge Ralph Gardner Jr. 2010

Egrets perch in oaks, cormorants dive into the green water, mallards pass overhead and we hear of the recent sighting of an osprey.

Country diary: Cornwall Virginia Spiers 2010

European Pressphoto Agency Egrets sat with myna birds on a shrub in the Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary, near the northeastern Indian city of Gauhati, Assam, Nov. 5.

India's Birds of Winter 2011

As lovely, even meditative, as it was to watch those stately, long-legged Egrets work their way through the marsh, this wasn't exactly pristine wilderness.

Birding on the City's Far Edge Ralph Gardner Jr. 2010

From White Egrets, by Derek Walcott, published by Faber £12.99.

Saturday poem: In the Village by Derek Walcott 2011

His most recent collection of poems is White Egrets Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010.

The Best American Poetry 2010 Amy Gerstler 2010

Derek Walcott: “21” from White Egrets. © 2010 by Derek Walcott.

The Best American Poetry 2010 Amy Gerstler 2010

Derek Walcott: “21” from White Egrets. © 2010 by Derek Walcott.

The Best American Poetry 2010 Amy Gerstler 2010

At Arcadia (in Spain), over by the slopes of Wolfy Mountain (by the rational building), Dr. Zog Kadare, who hadn't the gift of humanity and was considered the stupidest son of Alkaios (a dog farmer in Heidelberg), a cretin and a soothsayer, read in the egress of a flock of passing Egrets his own sallow ruddy death (a skull face pig jumps twice by night.).

The Sea at Sea (or Why is There a Question Instead of Not a Question) 2010