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Caribbean Poet Derek Walcott Dead at 87
Nobel laureate and poet Derek Walcott died early Friday morning at his St. Lucia home after battling a long illness. He was 87. Walcott was considered one of the world’s best poets, often challenging some of the greatest works written by Dante, Shakespeare, Chaucer, Yeats and Homer. Fiercely Caribbean, Walcott sought to define not only…