Falling Awake: Poems

Winner of the Costa Poetry Award ò Shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Award and the Forward Prize ôThese lyricsàillustrate poetryÆs unique ability to shock readers into a renewed awareness of the world.ö ùWashington Post Falling Awake, winner of the Costa Award for Poetry, ôgive[s] us the sensation of living alongside the natural world, of being a spectator to the changes that mark our mortalityö (Dan Chiasson, The New Yorker). Falling Awake expands on the imagery of fallen soldiers from HomerÆs Iliad portrayed in her previous volume, Memorialùdefining 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, cricketsùall characterized in tension between the weight of death and their own willpower. FROM ôVERTIGOö let me shuffle forward and tell you the two minute life of rain starting right now lips open and lidless cold all-seeing gaze

Author: Alice Oswald

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Publication Date: Feb 27, 2018

Number of Pages: 96 pages

Language: English

Binding: Paperback/Poetry

ISBN-10: 0393355454

ISBN-13: 9780393355451