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.
| ISBN: | 9780571144594 |
| Publication date: | 4th March 2002 |
| Author: | Derek Walcott |
| Publisher: | Faber & Faber |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 325 pages |
| Genres: |
Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards) Poetry by individual poets |