How does it start the sea has endless beginnings —⁠Alice Oswald, Nobody: A Hymn to the Sea   This is an essay about similes and the sea, and about shipwrecks. It’s about Homer’s Odyssey, and the works of two contemporary poet/classicists, Alice Oswald and A. E. Stallings, also obsessed with similes and the sea, Homer […]

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