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Title
Falling awake
Type
Text
Monograph
Contribution
Oswald, Alice, 1966- (author)
Subject
English poetry
2000-2099 (FAST)
Literature (UKSLC)
Genre Form
Poetry
Poetry (LCGFT)
Language
English (eng)
Classification
LCC: PR6065.S98 A6 2016b (Assigner: dlc) (Status: used by assigner)
DDC: 821/.914 full (Source: 23)
Content
text (txt)
Summary
Alice Oswald's award-winning and highly acclaimed volume Memorial ("wryly ingenious," said the New York Times Book Review) portrays fallen soldiers from Homer's Iliad. Falling Awake expands on that imagery -- 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. -- Provided by publisher.
Table Of Contents
A Short Story of Falling
Swan
Flies
Fox
Severed Head Floating Downriver
Cold Streak
Body
A Rushed Account of the Dew
Shadow
Village
Vertigo
Looking Down
Alongside Beans
A Drink from Cranmere Pool
Slowed-Down Blackbird
Dunt
Two Voices
Sunday Ballad
You Must Never Sleep under a Magnolia
Aside
Sz
Evening Poem
Tithonus
And so he goes on
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