Tottering State (SIGNED)
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed with inscription
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Few poets shatter the conventions of language with such radical precision as Tom Raworth, and Tottering State stands as the definitive testament to his singular genius. This landmark collection gathers selected and new poems spanning decades of relentless formal innovation, presenting a body of work that refuses the comforts of linear thought, narrative coherence, or lyric sentiment — instead hurling the reader into a breathless, staccato world where syntax itself becomes the site of political and perceptual disruption. Raworth, a towering figure of the British Poetry Revival and a key transatlantic bridge between the Black Mountain poets and the Cambridge School, constructs verse that is simultaneously playful and devastating, intimate and encyclopaedic. Tottering State chronicles the restless, fragmented consciousness of late modernity, arguing — through sheer velocity of language — that the instability of the state, of meaning, and of selfhood are inextricably linked. For readers willing to surrender to its dizzying currents, this collection promises a transformation in how poetry itself can be read and felt.
Author: Tom Raworth
Format: Paperback
Genre: Poetry
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed with inscription
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Few poets shatter the conventions of language with such radical precision as Tom Raworth, and Tottering State stands as the definitive testament to his singular genius. This landmark collection gathers selected and new poems spanning decades of relentless formal innovation, presenting a body of work that refuses the comforts of linear thought, narrative coherence, or lyric sentiment — instead hurling the reader into a breathless, staccato world where syntax itself becomes the site of political and perceptual disruption. Raworth, a towering figure of the British Poetry Revival and a key transatlantic bridge between the Black Mountain poets and the Cambridge School, constructs verse that is simultaneously playful and devastating, intimate and encyclopaedic. Tottering State chronicles the restless, fragmented consciousness of late modernity, arguing — through sheer velocity of language — that the instability of the state, of meaning, and of selfhood are inextricably linked. For readers willing to surrender to its dizzying currents, this collection promises a transformation in how poetry itself can be read and felt.