{"product_id":"falling-awake-poems-9780393355451","title":"Falling Awake: Poems","description":"\u003cem\u003eFalling Awake\u003c\/em\u003e, winner of the Costa Award for Poetry, \"give[s] us the sensation of living alongside the natural world, of being a spectator to the changes that mark our mortality\" (Dan Chiasson, \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e). \u003cem\u003eFalling Awake\u003c\/em\u003e expands on the imagery of fallen soldiers from Homer's \u003cem\u003eIliad\u003c\/em\u003e portrayed in her previous volume, \u003cem\u003eMemorial\u003c\/em\u003e--defining life as a slowly falling weight, where beings fight against their inevitable end. Oswald reimagines classical figures such as Orpheus and Tithonus alive in an English landscape together with shadows, flies, villagers, dew, crickets--all characterized in tension between the weight of death and their own willpower. \u003cp\u003eFROM \"VERTIGO\"\u003cbr\u003e let me shuffle forward\u003cbr\u003e and tell you the two minute life of rain\u003cbr\u003e starting right now\u003cbr\u003e lips open and lidless cold all-seeing gaze\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eOswald, Alice:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - The author of six previous books of poetry, Alice Oswald has been awarded the Eric Gregory Award, the Forward Prize, the Ted Hughes Award, the T. S. Eliot Prize, and the Griffin Prize. She lives in Devon, England.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eOswald, Alice:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eAlice Oswald\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of eight books of poetry, including \u003cem\u003eMemorial\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eFalling Awake\u003c\/em\u003e, 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.","brand":"W. W. Norton \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50649796313362,"sku":"9780393355451","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a13731f9-b314-498b-a38e-bd9e82354348.jpg?v=1733274101","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/falling-awake-poems-9780393355451","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}