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Omeros (1990)

Omeros (1990)

Poetry

Derek Walcott

Year: 1990
Authors: Derek Walcott
Print type: BOOK

Description:

A poem in five books, of circular narrative design, titled with the Greek name for Homer, which simultaneously charts two currents of history: the visible history charted in events -- the tribal losses of the American Indian, the tragedy of African enslavement -- and the interior, unwritten epic fashioned from the suffering of the individual in exile.