Omeros
CBC Books | | Posted: October 8, 2020 9:38 PM | Last Updated: October 26, 2020
Derek Walcott
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. (From Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Derek Walcott was a poet from St. Lucia in the Caribbean. He was the first Caribbean writer to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, which he was awarded in 1992. He died in 2017, at the age of 87.
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