Falling Awake: Poems

ISBN: 0393355454

Author: Oswald, Alice

Condition: New

Winner of the Costa Poetry Award Shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Award and the Forward PrizeThese lyricsillustrate poetrys unique ability to shock readers into a renewed awareness of the world. -Washington Post 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 Homers 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 VERTIGOlet me shuffle forwardand tell you the two minute life of rainstarting right nowlips open and lidless cold all-seeing gaze