โ Scribed by Simon Armitage
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Praised as "wonderful, exuberant, unsettling" on its publication in the United Kingdom, Simon Armitage's new collection brings us a vivid array of dramatic monologues, allegories, and tall tales.
All are welcome at this twilit, visionary carnival: the man whose wife drapes a border curtain across the middle of the marital home; the black bear with a dark secret; the woman who arranges giant snowballs in the freezer. "My girlfriend won me in a sealed auction but wouldn't / tell me how much she bid," begins one speaker; "I hadn't meant to go grave robbing with Richard Dawkins / but he can be very persuasive," another tells us. The storyteller behind this human tapestry has about him a sly undercover idealism: he shares with many of his characters a star-gazing capacity for belief, or for being, at the very least, entirely "genuine in his disbelief." In these startling poems, with their unique cartoon-strip energy and air of misrule, Armitage creates world after world,...
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Ruth Rabinowitz believes. She believes that her daughter, Bethany, is a terrific little actress, so they have come to Hollywood, where dreams come true. Ruth's husband and Bethany's father, who thinks their quest for stardom is delusional, has been left behind in Seattle. Joining Bethany Rabinowitz
SUMMARY: Ruth Rabinowitz believes. She believes that her daughter, Bethany, is a terrific little actress, so they have come to Hollywood, where dreams come true. Ruth's husband and Bethany's father, who thinks their quest for stardom is delusional, has been left behind in Seattle. Joining Bethany
SUMMARY: Ruth Rabinowitz believes. She believes that her daughter, Bethany, is a terrific little actress, so they have come to Hollywood, where dreams come true. Ruth's husband and Bethany's father, who thinks their quest for stardom is delusional, has been left behind in Seattle. Joining Bethany