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.
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Homer's Odyssey
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Farrar, Straus, Giroux
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English
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Print book
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Poetry
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African diaspora, Caribbean, Fathers and sons, and Epic poetry