Rhapsody: A Manifesto

di Alice Oswald (Autore)

Vintage Publishing, 2026

A daring, genre-defying work of non-fiction from one of our greatest poets Alice Oswald goes in search of poetry in its original, wildest form – before it was written down, before it belonged to a single voice – and finds it still speaking all around us. What begins as an attempt to ‘interview’ Homer becomes a wide-ranging exploration of an anonymous tradition that exists beyond authorship, spanning a world of singers, storytellers, mourners and listeners, of nightingales, grasshoppers and rivers. Zigzagging through ballads, riddles, pibrochs, drama, interviews, artificial intelligence and sonnets, Rhapsody is a restless, miraculous exploration of poetry in its most vital form, and a resounding manifesto for the oral tradition. At once intimate and expansive, Oswald invites us to listen to the voices that shape us, and to recognise poetry not as a solitary, written art, but as a communal, essential human inheritance.

• Autore: Alice Oswald
• Editore: Vintage Publishing
• Anno: 2026
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 272 p.
• Dimensioni: 222 x 138 mm
• Peso: 400 gr.
• EAN: 9781787332218

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