{"product_id":"2026200015553-secondhand-tottering-state-signed","title":"Tottering State (SIGNED)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eMarkings: Signed with inscription\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew 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.\n\nRaworth, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49203199672539,"sku":"2026200015553-SECONDHAND","price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/280090f1-15a0-41a4-804c-37ca01b5cb77.png?v=1788145493","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200015553-secondhand-tottering-state-signed","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}