{"product_id":"nobody-a-hymn-to-the-sea","title":"Nobody: A Hymn to the Sea","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eMemorial\u003c\/i\u003e, her unforgettable transformation of the \u003ci\u003eIliad\u003c\/i\u003e, Alice Oswald breathed new life into myth. In \u003ci\u003eNobody\u003c\/i\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 \u003ci\u003eNobody\u003c\/i\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","brand":"W. W. Norton \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39326755094628,"sku":"9781324005605","price":22.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/suomalainen-test.myshopify.com\/products\/nobody-a-hymn-to-the-sea","provider":"Suomalainen Test","version":"1.0","type":"link"}