by jac3 | Oct 19, 2017
Saint Lucia (West Indies) Published: 1990 Derek Walcott Omeros Omeros (1990) upends the conventions of canonical Western epics by turning Caribbean fishermen into twentieth century heroes. In its titular allusion to Homer as well as in its topical and formal...
by jac3 | Oct 19, 2017
United States First publication date: 2016 Frederick Turner, Apocalypse: An Epic Poem Frederick Turner’s third epic poem Apocalypse (2016) opens dramatically in the year 2067 with a colossal windstorm sweeping across the North Sea, causing...
by jac3 | Feb 1, 2016
United States 2021 William G. Carpenter Eϸandun, an epic poem Think of those dark age and medieval illuminated manuscripts, the thickly clotted detail on buckles, brooches, helmets, lamps, tapestries, the return to idiosyncratic and runic content after the centuries...
by jac3 | Jan 31, 2016
United States 2024 Dave Jilk, Epoch: A Poetic Psy-Phi Saga In 2001: A Space Odyssey the rogue computer HAL recalls Dr. Chandra, HAL’s first tutor/programmer. When Dave unplugs the computer, HAL’s last conscious thought is the old...
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