Derek Walcott
1) Omeros
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Pub. Date
[1990]
Language
English
Description
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.