1. Omeros
- 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
- Label
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/