Although this poem’s author claimed that it followed a terza rima-inspired hexameter in an interview with Luigi Sampietro, it frequently breaks form. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this 1990 poem in which Hector and Achille compete for the love of Helen.
ANSWER: Omeros
[10e] Derek Walcott’s Omeros exemplifies late 20th-century attempts at a “Caribbean” poem of this type. This lengthy type of poem usually describes a hero, such as Homer’s Odyssey.
ANSWER: epic poem
[10h] Omeros was preceded as a Caribbean epic by this writer’s six-book postmodern epic poem Empire of Dreams, one of several of their works depicting Caribbean immigrants to New York.
ANSWER: Giannina Braschi