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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.Derek Walcott is the author of 'Omeros', published 1992 under ISBN 9780374523503 and ISBN 0374523509.
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