Nobody : A Hymn to the Sea EPUB
by Alice Oswald
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In Memorial, her unforgettable transformation of the Iliad, Alice Oswald breathed new life into myth.
In Nobody, she returns to Homer, this time fixing her gaze on a minor character in the Odyssey-a poet abandoned on a stony island-and the sea that surrounds him.
Familiar voices drift in and out of the poem; though there are no proper names, we recognize Helios, Icarus, Alcyone, Philoctetes, Calypso, Clytemnestra, Orpheus, Poseidon, Hermes, and the presiding spirit of Proteus, the shape-shifting sea-god.As with all of Oswald's work, this is poetry that is made for the human voice, but here the language takes on the qualities of another element: dense, muscular, and liquid.
Reading Nobody is like watching the ocean; we slip our earthly moorings and follow the circling shoal of sea voices into a mesh of sound and light and water-fluid, abstract, and moving with the wash of waves.
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- Format:EPUB
- Pages:88 pages
- Publisher:W. W. Norton & Company
- Publication Date:21/07/2020
- ISBN:9781324005612
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- Format:EPUB
- Pages:88 pages
- Publisher:W. W. Norton & Company
- Publication Date:21/07/2020
- ISBN:9781324005612