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.
Work Based On:
Homer's Odyssey
Publisher:
Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Format:
Print book
Topic:
African diaspora, Caribbean, Fathers and sons, and Epic poetry
Title:
Omeros
Rights - Use and Reproduction:
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Type:
Poetry
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.
