Memorial: A Version of Homer's Iliad -- Alice Oswald, Paperback
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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.
Memorial: A Version of Homer's Iliad -- Alice Oswald, Paperback
$15.95
Author: Alice Oswald
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 11/18/2013
Pages: 112
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.2 lbs
Size: 8" H x 5.3" L x 0.4" W
ISBN: 9780393347272