{"product_id":"9781324021780","title":"Nobody: A Hymn to the Sea","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA collage of water stories from the \u003cem\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/em\u003e, reconstructed as a mesmeric and hallucinatory book-length poem by acclaimed poet Alice Oswald.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eMemorial\u003c\/em\u003e, her unforgettable transformation of the \u003cem\u003eIliad\u003c\/em\u003e, Alice Oswald breathed new life into myth. In \u003cem\u003eNobody\u003c\/em\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 \u003cem\u003eNobody\u003c\/em\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":"Norton, W. W. \u0026 Company, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47041417183472,"sku":"9781324021780","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781324021780_p0.jpg?v=1763707773","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781324021780","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}