Omeros
Derek Walcott
325 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 0571144594
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Language: English
Publish: January 1, 1998
20th CenturyClassicsEpicFictionLiteratureMythologyNobel PrizePoetryPost ColonialSchool
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.