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Omeros

Derek Walcott

Form
Form Epic Poem
Year
Year 1990
Pages
Pages 325

Two fishermen on a Caribbean island quarrel over a beautiful woman, while the island's deeper wounds, from slavery to empire, are given the scale of Homer.

This is how, one sunrise, we cut down them canoes.
Omeros, Derek Walcott

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