Author

Publication

1990 - Farrar, Straus, Giroux, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

81,250 words, Guess

Page Count

325 pages

Identifiers

  • Internet Archiveomeros00walc
  • ISBN-100374523509
  • ISBN-100374225915
  • ISBN-139780374225919
  • ISBN-139780374523503
and 5 more
  • Goodreads786699', '1235198
  • LibraryThing57431
  • Library of Congress Control Number90033592
  • OCLC Control Number21302066
  • Open LibraryOL23241815M

Classifications

  • LCCPR9272.9.W3 O44 1990

Description

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.

Subjects

Topics

811American poetryPr9272.9.w3 o44 1990Pr9272.9.w329 o44 1990New York Times reviewedPoetry (poetic works by one author)Trinidadian and tobagonian poetry (english)

Other Editions

  • OmerosFarrar, Straus, Giroux1990-01-01
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