Falling Awake - Poems (Paperback)

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

General

Imprint:	W W Norton & Co Inc
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	February 2018
Authors:	Alice Oswald
Dimensions:	211 x 140 x 8mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	96
ISBN-13:	978-0-393-35545-1
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Poetry texts & anthologies > General Promotions
LSN:	0-393-35545-4
Barcode:	9780393355451

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