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Omeros by Derek Walcott (1992, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherFarrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN-100374523509
ISBN-139780374523503
eBay Product ID (ePID)123769
Product Key Features
Book TitleOmeros
Number of Pages336 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1992
TopicCaribbean & Latin American, Epic, General
GenrePoetry
AuthorDerek Walcott
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight15.5 Oz
Item Length8.4 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition20
Reviews"No poet rivals Mr. Walcott in humor, emotional depth, lavish inventiveness in language, or the ability to express the thoughts of his characters and compel the reader to follow the swift mutations of ideas and images in their minds. This wonderful story moves in a spiral, replicating human thought, and in the end, surprisingly, it makes us realize that history, all of it, belongs to us."-Mary Lefkowitz, The New York Times Book Review (an Editors' Choice/Best Book of 1990 selection) "Characters come fully and movingly to life in Walcott's hands; black and white are treated with equal understanding and sympathy as they go their complicated ways . . . Wit and verbal play . . . enliven every page of this extraordinary poem . . . A constant source of surprise and delight from stanza to stanza, a music so subtle, so varied, so exquisitely right that it never once, in more than eight thousand lines, strikes a false note."-Bernard Knox, The New York Review of Books "One of the great poems of our time."-John Lucas, New Statesman and Society, No poet rivals Mr. Walcott in humor, emotional depth, lavish inventiveness in language, or the ability to express the thoughts of his characters and compel the reader to follow the swift mutations of ideas and images in their minds. This wonderful story moves in a spiral, replicating human thought, and in the end, surprisingly, it makes us realize that history, all of it, belongs to us., "No poet rivals Mr. Walcott in humor, emotional depth, lavish inventiveness in language, or the ability to express the thoughts of his characters and compel the reader to follow the swift mutations of ideas and images in their minds. This wonderful story moves in a spiral, replicating human thought, and in the end, surprisingly, it makes us realize that history, all of it, belongs to us." -- Mary Lefkowitz, The New York Times Book Review (an Editors' Choice/Best Book of 1990 selection) "Characters come fully and movingly to life in Walcott's hands; black and white are treated with equal understanding and sympathy as they go their complicated ways . . . Wit and verbal play . . . enliven every page of this extraordinary poem . . . A constant source of surprise and delight from stanza to stanza, a music so subtle, so varied, so exquisitely right that it never once, in more than eight thousand lines, strikes a false note." -- Bernard Knox, The New York Review of Books "One of the great poems of our time." -- John Lucas, New Statesman and Society, Characters come fully and movingly to life in Walcott's hands; black and white are treated with equal understanding and sympathy as they go their complicated ways . . . Wit and verbal play . . . enliven every page of this extraordinary poem . . . A constant source of surprise and delight from stanza to stanza, a music so subtle, so varied, so exquisitely right that it never once, in more than eight thousand lines, strikes a false note., "No poet rivals Mr. Walcott in humor, emotional depth, lavish inventiveness in language, or the ability to express the thoughts of his characters and compel the reader to follow the swift mutations of ideas and images in their minds. This wonderful story moves in a spiral, replicating human thought, and in the end, surprisingly, it makes us realize that history, all of it, belongs to us."-Mary Lefkowitz,The New York Times Book Review(an Editors' Choice/Best Book of 1990 selection) "Characters come fully and movingly to life in Walcott's hands; black and white are treated with equal understanding and sympathy as they go their complicated ways . . . Wit and verbal play . . . enliven every page of this extraordinary poem . . . A constant source of surprise and delight from stanza to stanza, a music so subtle, so varied, so exquisitely right that it never once, in more than eight thousand lines, strikes a false note."-Bernard Knox,The New York Review of Books "One of the great poems of our time."-John Lucas,New Statesman and Society
Dewey Decimal811
SynopsisA 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., A poem 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., Omeros is the grand epic poem told in multiple chapters from Nobel Prize-winning poet and playwright Derek Walcott. With circular narrative design, titled with the Greek name for Homer, Omeros 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. "One of the great poems of our time." -- John Lucas, New Statesman
LC Classification NumberPR9272.9.W3O44 1992
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- Feb 28, 2025
An epic masterpiece of poetry and humanity's efforts to moral greatness.
Derek Walcott's epic poem, "Omeros," is a masterpiece of lyrical beauty + creativity that explores the lives of Caribbean fishermen + their families while sometimes comparing their struggles through the themes of Homer's "Iliad;" A century from now, Walcott's "Omeros" will be regarded by critics and readers as a timeless masterpiece. The copy I received in a timely manner was in fine condition.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
