Memorial: a version of Homer's Iliad
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(Mythological character) Achilles;Oswald, Alice;Homer.
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Fiction
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2012
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W. W. Norton & Company
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English
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"The most remarkable and affecting book of poetry I encountered this year."--James Wood, _The New Yorker_ In this daring new work, the poet Alice Oswald strips away the narrative of the _Iliad_ --the anger of Achilles, the story of Helen--in favor of attending to its atmospheres: the extended simile