Omeros: Fsg 80th Anniversary Special Edition by Derek Walcott

Omeros: Fsg 80th Anniversary Special Edition

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Omeros: Fsg 80th Anniversary Special Edition by Derek Walcott

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Omeros: Fsg 80th Anniversary Special Edition

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The grand epic poem from the Nobel Prize winner Derek Walcott.

Omeros, named for Homer--that other chronicler of conflict and homecoming--is the Nobel Prize winner Derek Walcott's epic poem of the Atlantic. In scenes from St. Lucia, England, Massachusetts, and Lakota territory, Walcott offers history on a grand scale--replete with the horrors of colonialism and the transatlantic slave trade--as well as the interior story of private suffering and individual exile. In musical and agile lines, as unpredictable and unceasing as the sea itself, Walcott forges an Odyssey for the Americas and an enduring story of Caribbean selfhood, a work that is alive to the present and enriched by the deep, seductive rhythms of the past.

"One of the great poems of our time." --John Lucas, New Statesman
Book Details
Publisher:
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN:
9780374622350
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
336
Authors:
Derek Walcott
Published Date:
2026-07-07
Language:
English
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About Derek Walcott

Derek Walcott (1930–2017) was a poet and playwright born in Castries, Saint Lucia. His epic poem Omeros (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1990), written largely in terza rima, transposes Homeric figures to a Caribbean setting. He founded the Trinidad Theatre Workshop and taught for many years at Boston University. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1992. He also won the T.S. Eliot Prize in 2011 for White Egrets.

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