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The Shout : Selected Poems
by Armitage, Simon
- Used
- Condition
- Used - Good
- ISBN 10
- 0151011184
- ISBN 13
- 9780151011186
- Seller
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About This Item
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
Synopsis
Simon Armitage is one of Britain's most respected poets. He is considered Philip Larkin's successor in both the easy brilliance of his verse and the national acclaim he has received. His subjects have ranged from yardwork to politics, from the fidelity of dogs to the negotiations of lovers. A selection of poetry that is wry, unpretentious, and constantly inventive, The Shout collects Armitage's best work from the past three decades and includes many of his most recent poems. Man with a Golf Ball Heart They set about him with a knife and fork, I heard, and spooned it out. Dunlop, dimpled, perfectly hard. It bounced on stone but not on softer ground-they made a note of that. They slit the skin-a leathery, rubbery, eyelid thing-and further in, three miles of gut or string, elastic. Inside that, a pouch or sac of pearl-white balm or gloss, like Copydex. It weighed in at the low end of the litmus test but wouldn't burn, and tasted bitter, bad, resin perhaps from a tree or plant. And it gave off gas that caused them all to weep when they inspected it. That heart had been an apple once, they reckoned. Green. They had a scheme to plant an apple there again beginning with a pip, but he rejected it.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Better World Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 306488-6
- Title
- The Shout : Selected Poems
- Author
- Armitage, Simon
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 2
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0151011184
- ISBN 13
- 9780151011186
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
- Place of Publication
- Orlando
- This edition first published
- April 4, 2005
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