{"product_id":"falling-awake-poems-paperback","title":"Falling Awake: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAlice Oswald\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFROM \"VERTIGO\"\u003cbr\u003e let me shuffle forward\u003cbr\u003eand tell you the two minute life of rain\u003cbr\u003estarting right now\u003cbr\u003elips open and lidless cold all-seeing gaze\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 96\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 8.1 x 5.6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 27, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47350585393401,"sku":"9780393355451","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/Yk9TbmF0T2UzMWNDQmlYY0RpalRlZz09.webp?v=1769786972","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/falling-awake-poems-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}