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Memorial

By Alice Oswald

Memorial Poetry

Memorial

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In this daring new work, the poet Alice Oswald strips away the narrative of the Iliad-the anger of Achilles, the story of Helen-in favor of attending to its atmospheres: the extended similes that bring so much of the natural order into the poem and the corresponding litany of the war-dead, most of whom are little more than names but each of whom lives and dies unforgettably and unforgotten in the copious retrospect of Homer's glance. The resulting poem is a war memorial and a profoundly responsive work that gives new voice to Homer's level-voiced version of the world. Through a mix of narrative and musical repetition, the sequence becomes a meditation on the loss of human life.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
112
Release Date:
2013-11-18
Publication Date:
2013-11-18
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0393347273
ISBN13:
9780393347272
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
100 g
Height:
139 cm
Width:
208 cm
Thickness:
12 cm
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