| Title:
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MEMORIAL
A VERSION OF HOMER'S ILIAD |
| By: |
Alice Oswald, Eavan Boland |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| List price:
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£12.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0393347273 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780393347272 |
| Publisher: |
WW NORTON & CO |
| Pub. date: |
20 December, 2013 |
| Pages: |
112 |
| Description: |
The most remarkable and affecting book of poetry I encountered this year. James Wood, The New Yorker" |
| Synopsis: |
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." |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
WW Norton & Co |
| Prizes: |
Winner of Warwick Prize for Writing 2013. |
| Returns: |
Returnable |