Falling Awake: Poems

Alice Oswald (Oxford University)

Falling Awake: Poems
Format
Paperback
Publisher
WW Norton & Co
Country
United States
Published
27 February 2018
Pages
96
ISBN
9780393355451

Falling Awake: Poems

Alice Oswald (Oxford University)

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

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