Nobody : a hymn to the sea
(Book)
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Published
New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, 2020.
Format
Book
Edition
First American edition
ISBN
9781324005605, 1324005602
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Ilsley Public Library - New Materials Area | Poetry Oswald | On Shelf |
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Published
New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, 2020.
Edition
First American edition
Physical Desc
70 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
ISBN
9781324005605, 1324005602
Notes
Description
"A collage of water-stories from the Odyssey, reconstructed as a mesmeric and hallucinatory book- length poem by acclaimed poet Alice Oswald. 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"--,Provided by publisher
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Oswald, A., & Homer. (2020). Nobody: a hymn to the sea (First American edition). W. W. Norton & Company.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Oswald, Alice, 1966- and Homer. 2020. Nobody: A Hymn to the Sea. W. W. Norton & Company.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Oswald, Alice, 1966- and Homer. Nobody: A Hymn to the Sea W. W. Norton & Company, 2020.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Oswald, Alice, and Homer. Nobody: A Hymn to the Sea First American edition, W. W. Norton & Company, 2020.
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