CounterOmeros

Creator / Contributor:

Walcott, Derek

Date Created / Date Issued:

1990

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.

Work Based On:

Homer's Odyssey

Publisher:

Farrar, Straus, Giroux

Language:

English

Format:

Print book

Type:

Poetry

Topic:

African diaspora, Caribbean, Fathers and sons, and Epic poetry

Rights - Use and Reproduction:

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