{"product_id":"nobody-a-hymn-to-the-sea-paperback","title":"Nobody: A Hymn to the Sea - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAlice Oswald\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eMemorial\u003c\/em\u003e, her unforgettable transformation of the \u003cem\u003eIliad\u003c\/em\u003e, Alice Oswald breathed new life into myth. In \u003cem\u003eNobody\u003c\/em\u003e, she returns to Homer, this time fixing her gaze on a minor character in the Odyssey--a poet abandoned on a stony island--and the sea that surrounds him. Familiar voices drift in and out of the poem; though there are no proper names, we recognize Helios, Icarus, Alcyone, Philoctetes, Calypso, Clytemnestra, Orpheus, Poseidon, Hermes, and the presiding spirit of Proteus, the shape-shifting sea-god.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs with all of Oswald's work, this is poetry that is made for the human voice, but here the language takes on the qualities of another element: dense, muscular, and liquid. Reading \u003cem\u003eNobody\u003c\/em\u003e is like watching the ocean; 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 96\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.28 x 9.61 x 4.04 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 03, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51766869590304,"sku":"9781324021780","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/ba463a740fc89287d08259077d9ca91c.webp?v=1780300280","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/nobody-a-hymn-to-the-sea-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}