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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 time." --John Lucas, New StatesmanCustomers Also Bought
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- ISBN-13: 9780374523503
- ISBN-10: 0374523509
- Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Publish Date: June 1992
- Dimensions: 8.53 x 5.53 x 0.99 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.97 pounds
- Page Count: 336
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