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Memorial: A Version of Homer's Iliad

Alice Oswald

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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.

Book Details

  • Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
  • Publish Date: Nov 18th, 2013
  • Pages: 112
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.00in - 5.30in - 0.40in - 0.20lb
  • EAN: 9780393347272
  • Categories: • European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

About the Author

Boland, Eavan: - Eavan Boland (1944--2020) was the author of more than a dozen volumes of poetry, including Outside History and several volumes of nonfiction, and was coeditor of the anthology The Making of Poem. Born in Dublin, Ireland, she was one of the foremost female voices in Irish literature. She received a Lannan Foundation Award and an American Ireland Fund Literary Award, among other honors. She taught at Trinity College Dublin, University College Dublin, Bowdoin College, and Stanford University, where she was the director of the creative writing program.
Oswald, Alice: - Alice Oswald is the author of eight books of poetry, including Memorial and Falling Awake, winner of the Costa Poetry Award and Griffin Poetry Prize. Elected as the University of Oxford Professor of Poetry in 2019, she lives in Bristol, United Kingdom.

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they/them | 2023 @NEAarts fellow | author of #HTIYWAW @PressGaia ('22), FREEDOM HOUSE @DeepVellum ('23) & PRETTY @aaknopf ('24) | rep: @talllike3apples

current reads are a mix btw @GabrielleBates' JUDAS GOAT (audiobook), Derek Walcott's WHITE EGRETS, & Alice Oswald's MEMORIAL. let's see what I finish first 😅 I got more detailed thoughts on storygraph (earthtokb on there ofc), & hope to place more longform reviews #soon!

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Anton Hur is a writer and translator.

Is there a recording of Alice Oswald reciting all of MEMORIAL?

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epistemological & organizational anarchist ¦¦ You get to decide how you're gonna try to see it. - D. F. Wallace ¦¦ joeposaurus@chaos.social

@Maaikees Is best three books ok? The Four Tendencies by Gretchen Rubin The Kingkiller Chronicle by Patrick Rothfuss (trilogy, unclear when part 3 will be published) Memorial by Alice Oswald

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Praise for this book

Luminous. . . . [Oswald] has made a poem that blooms out of slaughter.-- "New York Times Book Review"
Graceful and elegiac.-- "New York Daily News"
Audacious, powerful and beautiful.-- "NPR"
One of the best books of poetry I've read in years.-- "Cleveland Plain Dealer"
Remembering on a grand scale . . . with a freshness to match Homer's own--as if each soldier had died on the day of writing.-- "Observer"

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