Description
Falling Awake, winner of the Costa Award for Poetry, "give[s] us the sensation of living alongside the natural world, of being a spectator to the changes that mark our mortality" (Dan Chiasson, The New Yorker). Falling Awake expands on the imagery of fallen soldiers from Homer's Iliad portrayed in her previous volume, Memorial--defining life as a slowly falling weight, where beings fight against their inevitable end. Oswald reimagines classical figures such as Orpheus and Tithonus alive in an English landscape together with shadows, flies, villagers, dew, crickets--all characterized in tension between the weight of death and their own willpower.
Author: Alice Oswald
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 02/27/2018
Pages: 96
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.60w x 0.40d
ISBN13: 9780393355451
ISBN10: 0393355454
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | European | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Poetry | Women Authors
FROM "VERTIGO"
let me shuffle forward
and tell you the two minute life of rain
starting right now
lips open and lidless cold all-seeing gaze
Author: Alice Oswald
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 02/27/2018
Pages: 96
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.60w x 0.40d
ISBN13: 9780393355451
ISBN10: 0393355454
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | European | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Poetry | Women Authors