Nobody by Alice Oswald #valentines Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac

Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac

Wagner's poems celebrate what he has called 'our steaming

Phil Cooper

taken mostly from the Odyssey – about a minor character

Fiama Hasse Pais Brandão

Nobody by Alice Oswald #valentines Allen Ginsberg and Jack KerouacThis 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,