Memorial A Version of Homer's Iliad [Paperback]

In this daring new work, the poet Alice Oswald strips away the narrative of theLuminous. . . . [Oswald] has made a poem that blooms out of slaughter.Graceful and elegiac.Audacious, powerful and beautiful.One of the best books of poetry Ive read in years.Remembering on a grand scale . . . with a freshness to match Homers ownas if each soldier had died on the day of writing.The most remarkable and affecting book of poetry I encountered this year.James Wood,