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PublisherNorton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.

ISBN-100393088677

ISBN-139780393088670

eBay Product ID (ePID)114225987

Product Key Features

Book TitleMemorial : a Version of Homer's Iliad

Number of Pages112 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2012

TopicGeneral, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

GenrePoetry

AuthorAlice Oswald

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight9.7 Oz

Item Length8.6 in

Item Width6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2012-022791

ReviewsRemembering on a grand scale . . . with a freshness to match Homer's own--as if each soldier had died on the day of writing.

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal821/.914

Synopsis"The most remarkable and affecting book of poetry I encountered this year."--James Wood, The New Yorker, 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., 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., 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."

LC Classification NumberPR6065.S98M46 2012