Falling-Awake
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Alice Oswald has been awarded the Eric Gregory Award, an Arts Foundation Award for Poetry, the Forward Prize, the Ted Hughes Award, and the T.S. Eliot Prize. She lives in Devon, England.
“[Oswald] writes a poetry of the natural world saturated with myth. A long poem about the dawn, ‘Tithonus,’ may be the most beautiful work I read all year.”
- Dan Chiasson, The New Yorker
“After having exhausted language once, Oswald has returned to exhaust it again, her own voice speaking over the corpses of the world’s ever-present erosion...and challenging herself and her readers to conceptualize what new shape can come when the last reiterated ‘whip of sparks’ in the world and its many spheres has ‘gone,’ and then gone again.”
- Los Angeles Review of Books
“[These] poems have a distinctive clarity of phrase, line, and shape, as if they came out of a trance of waking attention.”
- Boston Review
“Alice Oswald’s poems are vivid and distinct, alert and deeply, physically engaged in the natural world.”
- Poetry Daily
“Alice Oswald pulls off a feat in her seventh collection: she finds words for encounters with nature that ordinarily defy language.... [Falling Awake] is an astonishing book of beauty, intensity and poise―a revelation.”
- Observer
“[Falling Awake] does not disappoint.... Fierce in the quality of her attention, often metaphorically dazzling, Oswald earns our trust through her authority.”
- Guardian
“[A] modern classic.”
- Sunday Times
“A liminal text.... Unmistakably original.”
- Times Literary Supplement
“A sublime poet of the natural world.”
- Herald
“Stunning.... If there’s any justice in the poetry world, the title [Poet Laureate] should be offered to this gardener-classicist who is bringing the British landscape to life in poetry again.”
- Daily Telegraph
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Winner of the 2017 Griffin Prize Winner of the 2016 Costa Poetry Award Shortlisted for the 2016 T. S. Eliot Award Shortlisted for the 2016 Forward Prize A Daily Telegraph / Guardian / Herald / New Statesman / Sunday Times / Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year Alice Oswalds poems are always vivid and distinct, alert and deeply, physically, engaged in the natural world. Mutability a sense that all matter is unstable in the face of mortality is at the heart of this new collection and each poem is involved in that drama: the held tension that is embodied life, and lifes losing struggle with the gravity of nature. Working as before with an ear to the oral tradition, these poems attend to the organic shapes and sounds and momentum of the language as its spoken as well as how its thought: fresh, fluid and propulsive, but also fragmentary, repetitive. These are poems that are written to be read aloud. Orpheus and Tithonus appear at the beginning and end of this book, alive in an English landscape, stuck in the clockwork of their own speech, and the Hours goddesses of the seasons and the natural apportioning of Time are the presiding figures. The persistent conditions are flux and falling, and the lines are in constant motion: approaching, from daring new angles, our experience of being human, and coalescing into poems of simple, stunning beauty. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Seller Inventory # GOR007645036
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