In "Memorial," Alice Oswald has not translated the "Iliad" but eviscerated it. And in spilling the Greek epic's guts, the British poet has written one of the best books of poetry I've read in years.

I swiveled my head then to find a deercamouflaged by the leaves no longer there“what should I do with someone’s silhouette?” ...

British writer Alice Oswald’s appearance at the Whitney Humanities Center on Wednesday was billed in the WHC’s publicity materials as a “reading,” but it was clear from the very beginning of her ...

Police are again asking for the public’s help in the search for a 77-year-old Terre Haute woman last seen Nov. 9. Assistant Terre Haute Police Chief Shawn Keen released new information in the ...

The Iliad of Homer. Translated by Richmond Lattimore. University of Chicago Press; 608 pages; $35. Buy from Amazon.com BLOODY but beautiful, is there a greater poem than the “Iliad”? Depicting a few ...

It was a good year for fiction by young writers, though you wouldn’t necessarily know this from the Times Book Review’s selection of best novels of 2011. Teju Cole’s gifted first novel, “Open City” ...

Alice Sis Oswald, 90, of Catasauqua, died Saturday, December 10, 2005 in Lehigh Valley Hospice, Allentown. She was the wife of Donald K. Spike Oswald. Born in Hazleton, she was the daughter of the ...

Alice F. Oswald, 75, Antis Township, died Monday morning at UPMC Presbyterian, Pittsburgh. She was born in Tyrone, daughter of the late David and Louella (Irvin) Howard. She married John A. “Jack” ...