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Autumn 1992 • Vol. XIV No. 4 • Book Reviews |

Nightmare History: Derek Walcott’s “Omeros”

Omeros by Derek Walcott. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1990. 325 pages. $25.00.

I pass, like night, from land to land;
I have strange power of speech;
That moment that his face I see,
I know the man that must hear me:
To him my tale I teach.

COLERIDGE, Rime of the Ancient Mariner

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Searching for Djuna

By Sandra Runzo

Silence and Power: A Reevaluation of Djuna Barnes edited by Mary Lynn Broe. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1991. 424 pages. $29.95; $13.95, paper. “I am the most famous unknown […]

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