Nobody: A Hymn to the Sea
In Memorial, her unforgettable transformation of the Iliad, Alice Oswald breathed new life into myth. In Nobody, she returns to Homer, this time fixing her gaze on a minor character in the Odyssey-a poet abandoned on a stony island-and the sea that surrounds him. Familiar voices drift in and out of the poem; though there are no proper names, we recognize Helios, Icarus, Alcyone, Philoctetes, Calypso, Clytemnestra, Orpheus, Poseidon, Hermes, and the presiding spirit of Proteus, the shape-shifting sea-god.As with all of Oswald's work, this is poetry that is made for the human voice, but here the language takes on the qualities of another elemen…
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- ISBN: 978-1-324-02178-0
- EAN: 9781324021780
- Produktnummer: 37596141
- Verlag: W W Norton & Co
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
- Seitenangabe: 96 S.
- Masse: H21.1 cm x B14.2 cm x D1.3 cm 96 g
- Gewicht: 96
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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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