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Rosa Knorringa

moves through childhood and into the afterlife with poems that evoke an artful and urgent sense of the author's "insatiable wandering

Critical Quarterly

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Omeros Lurex portals pop openDerek Walcott 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