OmerosDerek 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

Unexhausted Time inhabits a world of dream and dawn

and Christian Wolff

leaving looky-loos with an important uncertainty about the intersection between violence and entertainment

was riddled with human follies and trespasses we've come to identify as the Anthropocene

how writing

Now side by side with Desnos's French

a book-length poem with die-cut stencil images throughout

This is truly revolutionary poetry

of laat je je juist gelden en houd je die wereld een spiegel voor

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Originally published in Spanish in Argentina in 2012

- Charles Bernstein