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Omeros

AUTHOR Walcott, Derek
PUBLISHER Farrar, Straus and Giroux (06/01/1992)
PRODUCT TYPE Paperback (Paperback)

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Omeros is the grand epic poem told in multiple chapters from Nobel Prize-winning poet and playwright Derek Walcott.

With circular narrative design, titled with the Greek name for Homer, Omeros 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.

"One of the great poems of our time." --John Lucas, New Statesman

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ISBN-13: 9780374523503
ISBN-10: 0374523509
Binding: Paperback or Softback (Trade Paperback (Us))
Content Language: English
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Page Count: 336
Carton Quantity: 36
Product Dimensions: 5.53 x 0.99 x 8.53 inches
Weight: 0.97 pound(s)
Feature Codes: Price on Product, Ikids
Country of Origin: US
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Literary Criticism | American - African American & Black
Literary Criticism | Caribbean & Latin American
Literary Criticism | Epic
Dewey Decimal: 811.6
Library of Congress Control Number: 90033592
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Omeros is the grand epic poem told in multiple chapters from Nobel Prize-winning poet and playwright Derek Walcott.

With circular narrative design, titled with the Greek name for Homer, Omeros 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.

"One of the great poems of our time." --John Lucas, New Statesman

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Author: Walcott, Derek
Derek Walcott was born in St. Lucia in 1930. He is the author of thirteen collections of poetry, seven collections of plays, and a book of essays. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1992.
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