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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 element: dense, muscular, and liquid. Reading Nobody 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.
| ISBN-13 | 9781324005605 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10 | 1324005602 |
| Weight | 0.55 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 5.80 x 0.60 x 8.60 In |
| List Price | $25.95 |
| Format | Hardcover |
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| Language | English |
| Pages | 96 pages |
| Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
| Published On | 2020-07-21 |
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