{"product_id":"falling-awake-poems-9780393355451","title":"Falling Awake: Poems","description":"\u003cem\u003eFalling Awake\u003c\/em\u003e, 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, \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e). \u003cem\u003eFalling Awake\u003c\/em\u003e expands on the imagery of fallen soldiers from Homer's \u003cem\u003eIliad\u003c\/em\u003e portrayed in her previous volume, \u003cem\u003eMemorial\u003c\/em\u003e--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. \u003cp\u003eFROM \"VERTIGO\"\u003cbr\u003e let me shuffle forward\u003cbr\u003e and tell you the two minute life of rain\u003cbr\u003e starting right now\u003cbr\u003e lips open and lidless cold all-seeing gaze\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alice Oswald\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e W. W. Norton \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/27\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.10h x 5.60w x 0.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780393355451\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eOswald, Alice:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - 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.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eOswald, Alice:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eAlice Oswald\u003c\/strong\u003e lives in Devon and is married with three children. Her collections include \u003cem\u003eDart\u003c\/em\u003e, which won the 2002 T.S. Eliot Prize, \u003cem\u003eWoods etc.\u003c\/em\u003e (Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize), \u003cem\u003eA Sleepwalk on the Severn\u003c\/em\u003e (Hawthornden Prize), \u003cem\u003eWeeds and Wildflowers\u003c\/em\u003e (Ted Hughes Award), \u003cem\u003eMemorial\u003c\/em\u003e (Warwick Prize for Writing), and \u003cem\u003eFalling Awake\u003c\/em\u003e, 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.","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Alice Oswald \/ Paperback \/ English","offer_id":67729084579997,"sku":"9780393355451","price":19.14,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_f685ac42-f538-4bbe-958a-0c33a2b9bdee.jpg?v=1792578951","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/falling-awake-poems-9780393355451","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}