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FALLING AWAKE

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FALLING AWAKE

â€œVivid . . . further proof of her bold engagement with poetryâ€™s narrative possibilities.â€â€•Teju Cole
Alice Oswaldâ€™s award-winning and highly acclaimed volume Memorial (â€œwryly ingenious,â€ said the New York Times Book Review) portrays fallen soldiers from Homerâ€™s Iliad. Falling Awake expands on that imageryâ€•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, cricketsâ€•all characterized in tension between the weight of death and their own willpower.
FROM â€œVERTIGOâ€
let me shuffle forward
and tell you the two minute life of rain
starting right now
lips open and lidless cold all-seeing gaze
Country USA
Brand Jonathan Cape
Manufacturer Jonathan Cape Ltd
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 25883447
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781910702437
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

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