A collage of water stories from the Odyssey , reconstructed as a mesmeric and hallucinatory book-length poem by acclaimed poet Alice Oswald. In Memorial , her unforgettable transformation of the Iliad , Alice Oswald breathed new life into myth. In Nobody , 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;...
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