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| Author/Contributor(s): |
Oswald, Alice ; Boland, Eavan
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| Publisher: |
W. W. Norton & Company
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| Date: |
11/18/2013
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| Binding: |
Paperback
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| Condition: |
NEW
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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.
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