{"product_id":"nobody-alice-oswald-9781324021780","title":"Nobody: A Hymn to the Sea","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eMemorial\u003c\/em\u003e, her unforgettable transformation of the \u003cem\u003eIliad\u003c\/em\u003e, Alice Oswald breathed new life into myth. In \u003cem\u003eNobody\u003c\/em\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs 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 element: dense, muscular, and liquid. Reading \u003cem\u003eNobody\u003c\/em\u003e is like watching the ocean; we slip our earthly moorings and follow the circling shoal of sea voices into a mesh of sound and light and water--fluid, abstract, and moving with the wash of waves.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alice Oswald\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1324021780\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781324021780\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e W. W. Norton \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/03\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.21lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.61h x 4.04w x 0.28d","brand":"Alice Oswald","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43993255706879,"sku":"9781324021780","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_be16ec6a-35e4-4741-b76c-43f1e10b1f32.jpg?v=1683323380","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/nobody-alice-oswald-9781324021780","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}