One of the most important poets of the last hundred years, Derek Walcott was also a gifted painter, an accomplished and award-winning man-of-the-theatre (a playwright, a director, and founder of two theaters, the Trinidad Theatre Workshop and the Playwrights' Theatre) as well as a devoted teacher. In this volume, Walcott's friends, collaborators, editors, and former students-many of them accomplished writers themselves-pay tribute to this multifaceted artist in essays which include memoirs, close readings, and letters.