Omeros

by Derek Walcott

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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.
  • ISBN10 0374523509
  • ISBN13 9780374523503
  • Publish Date 1 June 1992 (first published 31 August 1990)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 3 July 2009
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 325
  • Language English