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Omeros

Derek Walcott

Omeros
Translated by:
Unknown
Author is from, and story is set in
Saint Lucia

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.

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