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Omeros / Derek Walcott

By:

Walcott, Derek

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux , 1990Description: 325 p. ; 23 cmISBN:

9780374225919

Subject(s):

Poets, West Indies -- -20th century

DDC classification:

811 WAL

LOC classification:

PR9272.9.W3 O44 1990

Summary: 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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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	811 WAL (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		015628

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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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