Memorial: A Version of Homer's Iliad

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.

Author: Alice Oswald
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 11/18/2013
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.2lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.30w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9780393347272