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

Author: Derek Walcott
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 06/01/1992
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 8.53h x 5.53w x 0.99d
ISBN: 9780374523503