{"product_id":"falling-awake-poems-9780393355451","title":"Falling Awake: Poems","description":"\u003cem\u003eFalling Awake\u003c\/em\u003e, 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, \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e). \u003cem\u003eFalling Awake\u003c\/em\u003e expands on the imagery of fallen soldiers from Homer's \u003cem\u003eIliad\u003c\/em\u003e portrayed in her previous volume, \u003cem\u003eMemorial\u003c\/em\u003e--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. \u003cp\u003eFROM \"VERTIGO\"\u003cbr\u003e let me shuffle forward\u003cbr\u003e and tell you the two minute life of rain\u003cbr\u003e starting right now\u003cbr\u003e lips open and lidless cold all-seeing gaze\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-258234\"\u003eAlice Oswald\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e W. W. Norton \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/27\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.10h x 5.60w x 0.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780393355451\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0393355454\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-POE\"\u003ePoetry\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-POE005020\"\u003eEuropean | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-POE\"\u003ePoetry\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-POE024000\"\u003eWomen Authors\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"W. W. Norton \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42692903928045,"sku":"9780393355451","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_d64496e2-562b-41a3-b13b-c8b81c15b5b2.jpg?v=1649855949","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/falling-awake-poems-9780393355451","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}