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Title	:	Omeros
Author	:	Derek Walcott
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 325 pages
Published	:	June 1st 1992 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (first published 1990)
Categories	:	Poetry. Fiction. Classics. Literature

Omeros

Derek Walcott

Paperback | Pages: 325 pages

Rating: 4 | 2192 Users | 198 Reviews

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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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Original Title:	Omeros
ISBN:	0374523509 (ISBN13: 9780374523503)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Saint Lucia
Literary Awards:	WH Smith Literary Award (1991)

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I feel so proud to have read this sprawling, difficult, yet stunning work as my introduction to this Nobel Prize winning author. Omeros is a work that takes LOTS of patience and focus to really sort through the unbelievable technical range that Walcott employs, and get to the heart of this Caribbean epic. I'm so happy I picked this up!

I really enjoyed White Egrets as a collection by Walcott but I wasn't sure how I would feel about his epic poetry. I ended up really enjoying the book, being able to appreciate the poetics of Walcott while still being engaged in a story.The story follows the participants of a love triangle and those they interact with on their island of St.Lucia while also focusing on the narrator's personal conflict from time to time. The character's struggles highlight social themes, like identity, on multiple

The power of myth and language to trace universal human questions! Derek Walcott's masterpiece "Omeros" is the perfect example of how ancient myths can be seen as metaphors to clarify human existence - connecting present, past and future, solitude and community, fiction and reality, natural and artificial elements of life.Set in the Caribbean, in modern times, it features the characters from the Iliad and the Odyssey, playing out their roles in the local, contemporary environment, but with all

Continuing to read, here and there. I pick it up periodically and read a Chapter or Sub Chapter. The language is to be savored slowly. You also start to pick up on the rhyming, which makes it more enjoyable.This book for me is a long, slow, ongoing project, but a joyful one. The language is both funny and amazing at times -- and beautiful."I grew up where alleys ended in a harbor and Infinity wasn't the name of our street;where the town anarchist was the corner barber"

The power of myth and language to trace universal human questions! Derek Walcott's masterpiece "Omeros" is the perfect example of how ancient myths can be seen as metaphors to clarify human existence - connecting present, past and future, solitude and community, fiction and reality, natural and artificial elements of life.Set in the Caribbean, in modern times, it features the characters from the Iliad and the Odyssey, playing out their roles in the local, contemporary environment, but with all

Beautiful language and imagery but I honestly had no idea what was going on for majority of the poem.

Published in 1990, Omeros is a poem by expatriate Caribbean poet Derek Walcott about his native island of St. Lucia and, by extension, postcolonial locations everywhere. At 300 pages, this is a poem of epic scale and, at many points, direct allusion to the epic genre of antiquity. The poem is written in two main strands. On the one hand, there is a fictional plot set on St. Lucia, where the poor black fishermen Achilles and Hector fight over the beautiful Helen. They are joined by a supporting