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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
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2. Antígona González

Creator / Contributor:
Uribe Sánchez, Sara María
Additional Contributor(s):
Pluecker, John, translator
Date Created / Date Issued:
2016
Description:
Antígona González is the story of the search for a body, a specific body, one of the thousands of bodies lost in the war against drug trafficking that began more than a decade ago in Mexico. A woman, Antígona González, attempts to narrate the disappearance of Tadeo, her elder brother. She searches for her brother among the dead. San Fernando, Tamaulipas, appears to be the end of her search. But Sara Uribe’s book is also a palimpsest that rewrites and cowrites the juxtapositions and interweavings of all the other Antigones. From the foundational Antigone of Sophocles passing through Griselda Gambaro’s Antígona furiosa, Leopoldo Marechal’s Antígona Vélez, María Zambrano’s La tumba de Antígona all the way to Antigone’s Claim by Judith Butler. And this book’s writing machine includes testimonies from family members of the victims and fragments and fragments from news stories that provide accounts of all these absences, all the bodies that we are missing.
Work Based On:
Sophocles' Antigone
Publisher:
Les Figues Press
Language:
English and Español
Format:
Print book
Type:
Poetry
Topic:
Latin America, Tragedy, Women and death, Missing persons, and Play
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3. Night Sky with Exit Wounds

Creator / Contributor:
Vuong, Ocean
Date Created / Date Issued:
2016
Description:
A haunting debut that is simultaneously dreamlike and visceral, vulnerable and redemptive, and risks the painful rewards of emotional honesty. "Ocean Vuong's first full-length collection aims straight for the perennial "big"--And very human--subjects of romance, family, memory, grief, war, and melancholia. None of these he allows to overwhelm his spirit or his poems, which demonstrate, through breath and cadence and unrepentant enthrallment, that a gentle palm on a chest can calm the fiercest hungers."--Publisher's description.
Work Based On:
Homer's Odyssey
Publisher:
Copper Canyon Press
Language:
English
Format:
Print book
Type:
Poetry
Topic:
Asian American, LGBTQ, Fathers and sons, and Poetry
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4. The Odyssey

Creator / Contributor:
Homer
Additional Contributor(s):
Pope, Alexander, translator, Shankman, Steven, editor, and Lawrence, Avery, artist
Alternative Title:
Ὀδύσσεια
Date Created / Date Issued:
c. 8th century BC
Date Copyrighted:
2009
Description:
1 of 2 volumes in set of Alexander Pope translations. English translation by Alexander Pope. Greek text edited by Barry B. Powell; English translation edited by Steven Shurtleff; catalog entries researched and written by William Frank. "Enhanced by over fifty original art renderings in the Greek vase styles"--Jacket. Issued in slipcase. Includes bibliographical references.
Publisher:
Chester River Press
Language:
English and Ancient Greek
Format:
Print book
Type:
Poetry
Topic:
Epic poetry and Fathers and sons
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5. The Odyssey

Creator / Contributor:
Homer
Additional Contributor(s):
Wilson, Emily, translator
Date Created / Date Issued:
c. 8th century BC.
Date Copyrighted:
2018
Description:
"The first great adventure story in the Western canon, The Odyssey is a poem about violence and the aftermath of war; about wealth, poverty, and power; about marriage and family; about travelers, hospitality, and the yearning for home. In this fresh, authoritative version--the first English translation of The Odyssey by a woman--this stirring tale of shipwrecks, monsters, and magic comes alive in an entirely new way. "
Publisher:
W.W. Norton & Company
Language:
English
Format:
Print book
Type:
Poetry
Topic:
Epic poetry and Fathers and sons
Rights - Use and Reproduction:
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