Walcott, Derek: Omeros

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux, paperback Publication Date: June 01, 1992 Publisher Marketing: A poem of circular narrative design, titled with the Greek name for Homer, which simultane ously 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. Show more