Falling Awake
Alice Oswald
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From WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
Seller rating 4 out of 5 stars
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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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Title: Falling Awake
Publisher: Vintage Publishing, United Kingdom, London
Publication Date: 2016
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Very Good
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