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.
Author: Derek Walcott
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 06/01/1992
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 8.53h x 5.53w x 0.99d
ISBN13: 9780374523503
ISBN10: 0374523509
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | American | African American & Black
- Poetry | Caribbean & Latin American
- Poetry | Epic
About the Author
Derek Walcott was born in St. Lucia in 1930. His Collected Poems: 1948-1984 was published in 1986; his subsequent works include the book-length poem Omeros (1990), The Bounty (1997), and Tiepolo's Hound (2000), illustrated with the poet's own paintings. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1992.