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Title	:	Omeros
Author	:	Derek Walcott
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 325 pages
Published	:	June 1st 1992 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (first published 1990)
Categories	:	Poetry. Fiction. Classics. Literature

Omeros

Derek Walcott

Paperback | Pages: 325 pages

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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.

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Original Title:	Omeros
ISBN:	0374523509 (ISBN13: 9780374523503)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Saint Lucia
Literary Awards:	WH Smith Literary Award (1991)

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Nobel Prize ProjectYear: 1992Winner: Derek WalcottReview: Some incredibly beautiful writing and themes here, and several lines that will stick with me for a long time. There's some stuff here that's really great (Book II and Book VI are fundamentally 5 star worthy), but it also drags a bit in the middle and occasionally lapses into prose with line breaks.Verdict: Of the 110 Nobel winners (as of this writing), very few have been English language poets. Per the Nobel's official accounting there

I feel so proud to have read this sprawling, difficult, yet stunning work as my introduction to this Nobel Prize winning author. Omeros is a work that takes LOTS of patience and focus to really sort through the unbelievable technical range that Walcott employs, and get to the heart of this Caribbean epic. I'm so happy I picked this up!

Omeros is quite simply one of the most beautiful and engaging books I've ever read. It's smart, cynical, moving, even funny. I've been savoring it for months (it's a demanding read, not a book to zip through), but will now make a concerted effort to push through to its no-doubt tragic conclusion. Simply a must-read for anyone who cares about literature.

This is probably the best poetry I have ever read; I wanted it to go on for ever. Omeros is a novel length poem set in St Lucia and follows the exploits of fishermen Achile and Hector and the woman they love, Helen. Omeros is Greek for Homer so it is no coincidence that the names of the characters are picked from The Iliad and a blind poet Seven Seas features in the tale.But this is not just a tale of the island and the sea. It is the writer's story and the poem moves with him from St Lucia to

Continuing to read, here and there. I pick it up periodically and read a Chapter or Sub Chapter. The language is to be savored slowly. You also start to pick up on the rhyming, which makes it more enjoyable.This book for me is a long, slow, ongoing project, but a joyful one. The language is both funny and amazing at times -- and beautiful."I grew up where alleys ended in a harbor and Infinity wasn't the name of our street;where the town anarchist was the corner barber"

EvocationOmeros, the eight-thousand-line poem that undoubtedly clinched Derek Walcott's Nobel Prize in 1992, is a lithe glistening marvel. Like some mythological creature, it twists and turns before your eyes, seldom going straight, but shifting in space and time, sometimes terrible, sometimes almost familiar, always fascinating. Book-length poems (I am thinking of things like Byron's Don Juan, Browning's The Ring and The Book, and Vikram Seth's The Golden Gate ) might almost be thought of as

The power of myth and language to trace universal human questions! Derek Walcott's masterpiece "Omeros" is the perfect example of how ancient myths can be seen as metaphors to clarify human existence - connecting present, past and future, solitude and community, fiction and reality, natural and artificial elements of life.Set in the Caribbean, in modern times, it features the characters from the Iliad and the Odyssey, playing out their roles in the local, contemporary environment, but with all