In this daring new work, the poet Alice Oswald strips away the
narrative of the Iliad the anger of Achilles, the story of Helen in
favor of attending to its atmospheres: the extended similes that
bring so much of the natural order into the poem and the
corresponding litany of the war-dead, most of whom are little more
than names but each of whom lives and dies unforgettably and
unforgotten in the copious retrospect of Homer s glance. The
resulting poem is a war memorial and a profoundly responsive work
that gives new voice to Homer s level-voiced version of the world.
Through a mix of narrative and musical repetition, the sequence
becomes a meditation on the loss of human life."
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