Omeros

There are two currents of history in the author's poem, the visible history charted in events - the tribal losses of the American Indian and the tragedy of Afri... » 

There are two currents of history in the author's poem, the visible history charted in events - the tribal losses of the American Indian and the tragedy of African enslavement - and the interior, unwritten epic fashioned from the suffering of the individual in exile. «