Книга: Nobody (Oswald Alice); Jonathan Cape, 2019

This is a book-length poem - a collage of water-stories, taken mostly from the Odyssey - about a minor character, abandoned on a stony island. It is not a translation, though, but a close inspection of the sea that surrounds him. There are several voices in the poem but no proper names, although its presiding spirit is Proteus, the shape-shifting sea-god. We recognise other mythical characters - Helios, Icarus, Alcyone, Philoctetes, Calypso, Clytemnestra, Orpheus, Poseidon, Hermes - who drift in and out of the poem, surfacing briefly before disappearing.

Reading Nobody is like watching the ocean: a destabilising experience that becomes mesmeric, almost hallucinatory, as 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. As with all of Alice Oswald's work, this is poetry that is made for the human voice, but this poem takes on the qualities of another element: dense, muscular and liquid.

one person has the character of dust

another has an arrow for a soul

but their sto ries all end

somewhere

in the sea

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Параметр	Значение
ISBN	9781787331969
Автор(ы)	Oswald Alice
Вес	0.11
Возрастное ограничение	16+
Год издания	2019
Жанр	поэзия
Издатель	Jonathan Cape
Издательство	Jonathan Cape
Кол-во страниц	78
Количество книг	1
Количество страниц	78
Обложка	мягкая обложка
Тип обложки	мягкая