Jahan Ramazani on Derek Walcott ("A Far Cry from Africa")
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How can a poet choose between his language and his idea of home? A postcolonial turn this week, as Jahan Ramazani [https://english.as.virginia.edu/people/profile/rr5m] joins the podcast to talk about Derek Walcott's "A Far Cry from Africa [https://poets.org/poem/far-cry-africa]." Jahan Ramazani is University Professor and Edgar F. Professor and the Director of Modern and Global Studies in the Department of English at the University of Virginia. He is the author of several books, most recently Poetry in a Global Age [https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo59347589.html] (Chicago, 2020).  Please follow, rate, and review the podcast if you like what you hear. Share an episode with a friend. And subscribe to my Substack [https://kamranjavadizadeh.substack.com/], where you'll get occasional updates about the podcast and my other work.
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