Nobody

作者：AliceOswald

出版社：JonathanCape

出版年：2019-9-5

页数：88

装帧：Paperback

ISBN：9781787331969

内容简介
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This is a book-length poem – a collage of water-stories, taken mostly from the Odyssey – about a minor character, abandoned on a stony island. It is not a translation, though, but a close inspection of the sea that surrounds him. There are several voices in the poem but no proper names, although its presiding spirit is Proteus, the shape-shifting sea-god. We recognise other mythical characters – Helios, Icarus, Alcyone, Philoctetes, Calypso, Clytemnestra, Orpheus, Poseidon, Hermes – who drift in and out of the poem, surfacing briefly before disappearing.

Reading Nobody is like watching the ocean: a destabilising experience that becomes mesmeric, almost hallucinatory, as 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. As with all of Alice Oswald’s work, this is poetry that is made for the human voice, but this poem takes on the qualities of another element: dense, muscular and liquid.

one person has the character of dust

another has an arrow for a soul

but their stories all end

somewhere

in the sea

作者简介
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Alice Oswald lives in Devon and is married with three children. Her collections include Dart, which won the 2002 T.S. Eliot Prize, Woods etc. (Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize), A Sleepwalk on the Severn (Hawthornden Prize), Weeds and Wildflowers (Ted Hughes Award), Memorial (Warwick Prize for Writing), and Falling Awake, which won the 2016 Costa Poetry Award and the Griffin Prize for Poetry.

评论 ······

从想法到视觉设计都很大胆的作品，几乎每一页都同海/水相关，像我们时代的萨福而恰有种特殊的干燥气质。

水鬼吟诵版的《奥德赛》，将辽阔史诗演绎成絮语小调，清冷，悄然，断续，荷马本事依稀可辨，却仿佛被风吹散，随波摇漾。真的是爱死这本，要胜过她"缩写"《伊利亚特》的Memorial，也可以拿来和露易丝格吕克的诗集Meadowlands并置，互相补充，一个在海里，一个在陆地，演绎出了各自心目中的《奥德赛》。

阿伽门农前往特洛亚作战前曾遣一诗人监视其妻，后者遭王后情人发配荒岛，Nobody既乃此无名诗人，当然也不免叫人想起“无人（nobody-outis）”奥德修斯。这细细密密，荒芜而凛冽的水之絮语，属于无名者、属于无人，却也见伊卡洛斯、阿尔库俄涅、菲洛墨拉、菲罗克忒忒斯等声音穿梭其间。细密、荒芜、凛冽的水之絮语。读她的诗要把感官都调动起来才行。比如：this goblin-god with ghost…

睡前看，当晚就梦到了大海和海洋生物

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