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Seeing Stars : Poems by Simon Armitage is a work of literary fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Seeing Stars : Poems about?
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,...
Who reads Seeing Stars : Poems?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Simon Armitage
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group;Alfred A. Knopf
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780307594839
- Category
- work of literary fiction
- Subjects
- Poetry, Short Stories, Fiction
- Rating
- 4.2 / 5 (9 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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