Omeros

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

• | Author: Derek Walcott
• | Publisher: Faber & Faber
• | Publication Date: Mar 04, 2002
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9780571144594
• | ISBN-10: 0571144594