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Falling Awake: PoemsFalling Awake, 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, The New Yorker). Falling Awake expands on the imagery of fallen soldiers from Homer's Iliad portrayed in her previous volume, Memorial defining life as a slowly falling weight, where beings fight against their inevitable end. Oswald reimagines classical figures
Falling Awake, 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, The New Yorker). Falling Awake expands on the imagery of fallen soldiers from Homer's Iliad portrayed in her previous volume, Memorial--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.FROM "VERTIGO"
let me shuffle forward
and tell you the two minute life of rain
starting right now
lips open and lidless cold all-seeing gaze
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 02/27/2018
ISBN: 9780393355451
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.60w x 0.40d
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Cute Book
Format: Hardcover
Adorable, going to read and give to my little girl.
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Reviewed in the United States on February 22, 2025
★★★★★ 5
Love this book
Format: Paperback
I love this book! I bought it for my best friends daughter and she finds this book to be hilarious. She even makes a bunch of fart noises while reading it. I need more of these!
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Reviewed in the United States on May 21, 2026
★★★★★ 5
Paper packaging left in the rain
Format: Paperback
The books thankfully had sturdy covers for paperback books. The pages of the story were protected from being ruined by the puddle my soaked envelope sat it. It would have been nice to get a notification that my package arrived or for Amazon to waterproof my order. We usually receive a text message with picture proof of delivery.
The story is cute and rhyming. Fun to read to kids.
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Reviewed in the United States on February 24, 2025
★★★★★ 5
Hilarious book
Format: Paperback
It’s cute, funny, and keeps my kids attention.
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Reviewed in the United States on August 24, 2024
★★★★★ 5
Cheeky, but adorable read for the child that has a great sense of humor.
Format: Paperback
Our daughter bought this for our son as a gag gift, and it really brought the LOL's! It's a fun book we all enjoyed reading together.
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Reviewed in the United States on January 9, 2023