Description
| Product ID: | 9780571144594 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Omeros |
| Authors: | Author: Derek Walcott Estate |
| Page Count: | 336 |
| Subjects: | Poetry by individual poets, Poetry by individual poets |
| Description: | Features a poem in five books, of circular narrative design, titled with the Greek name for Homer, this book charts two currents of history: the visible history charted in events - the tribal losses of the American Indian, the tragedy of African enslavement - and unwritten epic fashioned from the suffering of the individual in exile. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Faber & Faber |
| Publisher Name: | Faber & Faber |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2002-03-04 |