{"product_id":"tyrannosaurus-rex-versus-the-corduroy-kid","title":"Tyrannosaurus Rex Versus the Corduroy Kid","description":"From one of the most important British poets at work today comes a brilliant new collection that meditates on human battles past and present, on youth and age, on monsters and underdogs, on the life of nations and the individual heart.\n\nIn Tyrannosaurus Rex Versus the Corduroy Kid, we meet a writer who speaks naturally, and with frankness and restraint, for his culture. Armitage witnesses the pathos of women at work in the mock-Tudor Merrie England coffeehouses and gives us a backstage take on the world of Oliver Twist and the Artful Dodger. He makes a gift to the reader of the sympathy and misery and grit buried in his nation’s collective consciousness: in the distant battle depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry and in the daily lives and petty crimes of ordinary people. In poems that are sometimes lyrical, sometimes brash and comic, and full of living voices, the extraordinary and the mythic grow out of the ordinary, and figures of diminishment and tragedy shine forth as mysterious, uncelebrated exemplars. Armitage tells us ruefully that “the future was a beautiful place, once,” and with a steady eye out for the odd mystery or joyous scrap of experience, examines our complex present instead.\n\nAFTER THE HURRICANE\n\nSome storm that was, to shoulder-charge the wall\nin my old man’s back yard and knock it flat.\nBut the greenhouse is sound, the chapel of glass\nwe glazed one morning. We glazed with morning.\nAnd so is the hut. And so is the shed.\n\nWe sit in the ruins and drink. He smokes.\nBack when, we would have built that wall again.\nBut today it’s enough to drink and smoke\namongst mortar and bricks, here at the empire’s end.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0307268411\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: BVV.0307268411.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Armitage, Simon\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: The item shows wear from consistent use, but it remains in good condition and works perfectly. All pages and cover are intact  including the dust cover, if applicable . Spine may show signs of wear. Pages may include limited notes and highlighting. May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blue Vase Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42756279009341,"sku":"BVV.0307268411.G","price":9.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/4225\/9261\/files\/0307268411-0.jpg?v=1764537264","url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/tyrannosaurus-rex-versus-the-corduroy-kid","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}