{"product_id":"memorial","title":"Memorial","description":"In this daring new work, the poet Alice Oswald strips away the narrative of the \u003cem\u003eIliad\u003c\/em\u003e--the anger of Achilles, the story of Helen--in favor of attending to its atmospheres: the extended similes that bring so much of the natural order into the poem and the corresponding litany of the war-dead, most of whom are little more than names but each of whom lives and dies unforgettably and unforgotten in the copious retrospect of Homer's glance. The resulting poem is a war memorial and a profoundly responsive work that gives new voice to Homer's level-voiced version of the world. Through a mix of narrative and musical repetition, the sequence becomes a meditation on the loss of human life.","brand":"W. W. Norton \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48836031611085,"sku":"9780393347272","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0557\/1529\/9533\/files\/imageloader_76452560-7930-41f6-bf23-8b00fffd5914.jpg?v=1790991837","url":"https:\/\/booksatmidnight.com\/products\/memorial","provider":"Books At Midnight","version":"1.0","type":"link"}