Falling awake /
Alice Oswald's award-winning and highly acclaimed volume Memorial (wryly ingenious, said the New York Times Book Review) portrays fallen soldiers from Homer's Iliad. Falling Awake expands on that imagery-defining life as a slowly falling weight, where beings fight against their inevitable...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
W.W. Norton & Company,
2016.
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| Edition: | First American edition. |
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| Summary: | Alice Oswald's award-winning and highly acclaimed volume Memorial (wryly ingenious, said the New York Times Book Review) portrays fallen soldiers from Homer's Iliad. Falling Awake expands on that imagery-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. 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 81 pages ; 22 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780393285284 0393285286 |