Nobody
Oswald, Alice, 1966-2019
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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.
Main title:
Nobody / Alice Oswald.
Author:
Oswald, Alice, 1966-, author
Imprint:
London : Cape Poetry, 2019.
Collation:
70 pages ; 20 cm
ISBN:
9781787331969 (pbk)9781473557734 (ePub ebook)
Dewey class:
821.9'2
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
274553
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