Falling Awake: Poems - Paperback
by Alice Oswald
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Languages:EnglishPublisher:W. W. Norton & CompanyISBN-13:9780393355451ISBN-10:393355454UPC:9780393355451Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:European, Women AuthorsBook Topic:English, Irish, Scottish, WelshSize:8.10 x 5.60 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.3Product ID:SC02KRHSZJ
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.
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
Languages:EnglishPublisher:W. W. Norton & CompanyISBN-13:9780393355451ISBN-10:393355454UPC:9780393355451Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:European, Women AuthorsBook Topic:English, Irish, Scottish, WelshSize:8.10 x 5.60 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.3Product ID:SC02KRHSZJ
Oswald, Alice: - The author of six previous books of poetry, Alice Oswald has been awarded the Eric Gregory Award, the Forward Prize, the Ted Hughes Award, the T. S. Eliot Prize, and the Griffin Prize. She lives in Devon, England.Oswald, Alice: - Alice Oswald is the author of eight books of poetry, including Memorial and Falling Awake, winner of the Costa Poetry Award and Griffin Poetry Prize. Elected as the University of Oxford Professor of Poetry in 2019, she lives in Bristol, United Kingdom.
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