Falling Awake: Poems (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780393355451)

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

Author: Alice Oswald
ISBN-10: 0393355454
ISBN-13: 9780393355451
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Language: English
Published: 02/27/2018
Pages: 96
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.60w x 0.40d