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Omeros
Derek Walcott
Farrar Straus & Giroux · Print & ebook · June 1, 1992
Reading lane: Caribbean & Latin American Poetry
A Poetry pick for readers exploring Omeros.
At a Glance
Who It's For
Book Details
- Authors
- Derek Walcott
- Publisher
- Farrar Straus & Giroux
- Published
- June 1, 1992
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Caribbean & Latin American Poetry · Epic Poetry
- Reading lane
- Caribbean & Latin American Poetry
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Publisher Categories
Caribbean & Latin American Poetry
Epic Poetry
About This Book
Omeros is the grand epic poem told in multiple chapters from Nobel Prize-winning poet and playwright Derek Walcott. With circular narrative design, titled with the Greek name for Homer, Omeros 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. “One of the great poems of our t...
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