Download or read book Omeros written by Derek Walcott and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1990-08-31 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.