{"product_id":"9781446483978","title":"Demolition","description":"\u003cp\u003eWith the frank, subversive, and very funny poems in his first two books, Neil Rollinson established himself as a deft cartographer of the sensual world. While a rich and tactile eroticism still courses through \u003ci\u003eDemolition\u003c\/i\u003e, there is a new seriousness here, as mortality starts to throw its long shadow. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese poems occupy a more rueful, reflective space - provisional, mercurial and fragile - a darker place where disintegration and loss are the only certainties, and memory is the only solid ground. Central to this is the death of the father - whether the poet's own, or the lost fathers of Borges or Vallejo - and the theme is broadened through a number of moving examinations of the erosion of time and youth. Against this gathering darkness, Rollinson sets a spirited defence, blending the lyric and vernacular voice in a muscular celebration of food, sex, sport and the natural world that is unusually refreshing, and sophisticated enough to allow both humour and profundity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe poems in \u003ci\u003eDemolition\u003c\/i\u003e never give up hope; they exhibit a tenacious optimism - or at least a steely pragmatism - that says: we have what we are given, there is no alternative, and we all must find what joy we can in life, and in its living.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47134651220208,"sku":"9781446483978","price":12.68,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781446483978_p0.jpg?v=1763817186","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781446483978","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}