Tyrannosaurus Rex versus the Corduroy Kid - Rilegato

Armitage, Simon

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0571233252 ISBN 13: 9780571233250

Casa editrice: Faber & Faber, 2006

Riassunto

Simon Armitage's new collection brings news from unusual places, whether from the recent past (an island being born off the coast of Iceland, the 'Women of Merrie England' coffee houses of the poet's Huddersfield youth) or from the remote warrior worlds of the Bayeux tapestry, the Odyssey and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Other poems belong to a future that is extinct before it arrives, or that is a small and sinister step away from the would-be solidities of our present. But what Tyrannosaurus Rex and the Corduroy Kid engages with above all is the matter of England, here and now. The poet's preoccupation with utopias and new republics, with visions and intimations, is in the service of a sharpened focus upon this island - 'here at the Empire's end' - just as his evolutionary concerns lock into a heightened sense of where we now stand, in the company of animals (birds, sloths, horses), and where we part company to give rein to the beast within. Tyrannosaurus Rex Versus the Corduroy Kid is a book of oppositions. From the David and Goliath of the epigraph to the man-against-nature of the final page, Armitage details one conflict after another: between youth and age, between the ancient and modern, between science and myth, and between east and west. The result is his wittiest, most alertly combative and impassioned collection to date.

Su questo libro

Descrizione del libro:

A new collection of poems from the winner of the T. S. Eliot Prize.

L'autore:

Simon Armitage was born in West Yorkshire in 1963. In 1992 he was winner of one of the first Forward Prizes, and a year later was the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year. He works as a freelance writer, broadcaster and playwright, and has written extensively for radio and television. Previous titles include Kid, Book of Matches, The Dead Sea Poems, CloudCuckooLand, Killing Time and The Universal Home Doctor.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Faber & Faber
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0571233252
• ISBN 13: 9780571233250
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 80