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The Unaccompanied: Poems
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Dieser Artikel gilt, aufgrund seiner Grösse, beim Versand als 2 Artikel!
| Lieferstatus: |
Auf Bestellung (Lieferzeit unbekannt) |
| Veröffentlichung: |
August 2017
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| Genre: |
Romane, Erzählungen, Gedichte |
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Belletristik# Themen, Stoffe, Motive# Regionalroman / Lyrik, Poesie / Poetry / POETRY / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh / POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Death, Grief, Loss / POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Places |
| ISBN: |
9781524732424 |
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EAN-Code:
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9781524732424 |
| Verlag: |
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |
| Einband: |
Gebunden |
| Sprache: |
English
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| Dimensionen: |
H 208 mm / B 147 mm / D 15 mm |
| Gewicht: |
227 gr |
| Seiten: |
96 |
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From the prize-winning poet and former Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom comes a powerful collection of poetry that gives voice to the people of Britain with a haunting grace.
We meet characters whose sense of isolation is both emotional and political, both real and metaphorical, from a son made to groom the garden hedge as punishment, to a nurse standing alone at a bus stop as the centuries pass by, to a latter-day Odysseus looking for enlightenment and hope in the shadowy underworld of a cut-price supermarket. We see the changing shape of England itself, viewed from a satellite "like a shipwreck's carcass raised on a sea-crane's hook, / nothing but keel, beams, spars, down to its bare bones." In this exquisite collection, Armitage X-rays the weary but ironic soul of his nation, with its "Songs about mills and mines and a great war, / lines about mermaids and solid gold hills, / songs from broken hymnbooks and cheesy films"--in poems that blend the lyrical and the vernacular, with his trademark eye for detail and biting wit. |
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