Falling Awake: Poems by Oswald, Alice
Falling Awake: Poems by Oswald, Alice

Falling Awake: Poems

Falling Awake, winner of the Costa Award for Poetry, "give[s] us the sensation of living alongside the...
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Author: Alice Oswald
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Falling Awake: Poems by Oswald, Alice

Falling Awake: Poems

$19.14
Falling Awake: Poems by Oswald, Alice

Falling Awake: Poems

$19.14
Author: Alice Oswald
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
Falling Awake, winner of the Costa Award for Poetry, "give[s] us the sensation of living alongside the natural world, of being a spectator to the changes that mark our mortality" (Dan Chiasson, The New Yorker). Falling Awake expands on the imagery of fallen soldiers from Homer's Iliad portrayed in her previous volume, Memorial--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.

FROM "VERTIGO"
let me shuffle forward
and tell you the two minute life of rain
starting right now
lips open and lidless cold all-seeing gaze



Author: Alice Oswald
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 02/27/2018
Pages: 96
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.60w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9780393355451

About the Author
Oswald, Alice: - The author of six previous books of poetry, Alice Oswald has been awarded the Eric Gregory Award, the Forward Prize, the Ted Hughes Award, the T. S. Eliot Prize, and the Griffin Prize. She lives in Devon, England.Oswald, Alice: - Alice Oswald lives in Devon and is married with three children. Her collections include Dart, which won the 2002 T.S. Eliot Prize, Woods etc. (Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize), A Sleepwalk on the Severn (Hawthornden Prize), Weeds and Wildflowers (Ted Hughes Award), Memorial (Warwick Prize for Writing), and Falling Awake, which won the 2016 Costa Poetry Award and the Griffin Prize for Poetry. She served as the University of Oxford Professor of Poetry from 2019 to 2023.
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