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Falling Awake

By: Publication details: England; Cape Poetry; 2016Description: 81 Pages; PaperbackISBN:
  • 9781910702437
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 821.91
Summary: Alice Oswald's award-winning and highly acclaimed volume Memorial ("wryly ingenious," said the New York Times Book Review) portrays fallen soldiers from Homer's Iliad. Falling Awake expands on that imagery -- 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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Book Adult and Young Adult 15-17 Karachi Poetry and Drama 821.91 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available PKLC022957
Book Adult and Young Adult 15-17 Lahore Poetry and Drama 821.91 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available PKLC022798
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Alice Oswald's award-winning and highly acclaimed volume Memorial ("wryly ingenious," said the New York Times Book Review) portrays fallen soldiers from Homer's Iliad. Falling Awake expands on that imagery -- 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.

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