Falling Awake: Poems

by Alice Oswald

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393355454
• ISBN13: 9780393355451
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.6" x 8.1"