Omeros
By: Derek Walcott.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Published: 1990
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 325
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.
Notes: A Poem.
LC copy has dust jacket.
Source: CIP, Aug. 29, 1990.