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- Author: Alice Oswald
- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
- Year: 2020
- Pages: 96
- ISBN: 9781324005612
- ISBN-10: 1324005610
- ISBN-13: 9781324005612
- Format: ePub
- Language: English
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In Memorial, her unforgettable transformation of the Iliad, Alice Oswald breathed new life into myth. In Nobody, she returns to Homer, this time fixing her gaze on a minor character in the Odyssey—a poet abandoned on a stony island—and the sea that surrounds him. Several voices drift in and out of the poem; though there are no proper names, we recognize familiar characters and the presiding spirit of Proteus, the shape-shifting sea-god.
Reading Nobody is like watching the ocean; we slip our earthly moorings and follow the circling shoal of sea voices into a mesh of sound and light and water—fluid, abstract, and moving with the wash of waves.
one person has the character of dust
another has an arrow for a soul
but their stories all end
somewhere
in the sea
- Author: Alice Oswald
- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
- Year: 2020
- Pages: 96
- ISBN: 9781324005612
- ISBN-10: 1324005610
- ISBN-13: 9781324005612
- Format: ePub
- Language: English English
In Memorial, her unforgettable transformation of the Iliad, Alice Oswald breathed new life into myth. In Nobody, she returns to Homer, this time fixing her gaze on a minor character in the Odyssey—a poet abandoned on a stony island—and the sea that surrounds him. Several voices drift in and out of the poem; though there are no proper names, we recognize familiar characters and the presiding spirit of Proteus, the shape-shifting sea-god.
Reading Nobody is like watching the ocean; we slip our earthly moorings and follow the circling shoal of sea voices into a mesh of sound and light and water—fluid, abstract, and moving with the wash of waves.
one person has the character of dust
another has an arrow for a soul
but their stories all end
somewhere
in the sea
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