| Falling Awake: Poems Contributor(s): Oswald, Alice (Author) |
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ISBN: 0393355454 ISBN-13: 9780393355451 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company OUR PRICE: $14.36 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Poetry | Women Authors |
| Dewey: 821.914 |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.6" W x 8.1" (0.30 lbs) 96 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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" |
Contributor Bio(s): 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 2016 Costa Poetry Award and the Griffin Prize. Elected as the Oxford University Professor of Poetry in 2019, Oswald lives in Bristol, England, with her family. |