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A review by le_lobey
Falling Awake: Poems by Alice Oswald
4.0
3.5 - some really standout pieces, some I liked well enough, a few weren't for me
favs:
A Short Story of Falling - the couplet form performs the inevitability of the water cycle and the ways nature transforms and interconnects.
Severed Head Floating Downriver - I love the Orpheus myth
A Rushed Account of Dew - just an amazing little example of how poems can crystallize — or perhaps condense — moments in a way that is normally inaccessible
Looking Down - among these poems, many of which I could see transpiring, this was the most visually striking. I love what she does with looking at the reflection of the sky in a puddle.
Dunt - the recurrence and retooling of phrases happens a lot throughout this collection and it works so well here, until the poem-river finally gushes out from the nymph statue's jar.
favs:
A Short Story of Falling - the couplet form performs the inevitability of the water cycle and the ways nature transforms and interconnects.
Severed Head Floating Downriver - I love the Orpheus myth
A Rushed Account of Dew - just an amazing little example of how poems can crystallize — or perhaps condense — moments in a way that is normally inaccessible
Looking Down - among these poems, many of which I could see transpiring, this was the most visually striking. I love what she does with looking at the reflection of the sky in a puddle.
Dunt - the recurrence and retooling of phrases happens a lot throughout this collection and it works so well here, until the poem-river finally gushes out from the nymph statue's jar.