| Author: | Derek Walcott | ISBN: | 9781466880405 |
| Publisher: | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Publication: | September 9, 2014 |
| Imprint: | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Language: | English |
| Author: | Derek Walcott |
| ISBN: | 9781466880405 |
| Publisher: | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
| Publication: | September 9, 2014 |
| Imprint: | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
| Language: | English |
Derek Walcott's Omeros is 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.
Derek Walcott's Omeros is 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.
