{"product_id":"9781524732424","title":"The Unaccompanied","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA powerful new collection of poetry from the National Book Critics Circle Award nominee and recipient of the Forward Poetry Prize\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Unaccompanied,\u003c\/i\u003e Armitage gives voice to the people of Britain with a haunting grace. We meet characters whose sense of isolation is both emotional and political, both real and metaphorical, from a son made to groom the garden hedge as punishment, to a nurse standing alone at a bus stop as the centuries pass by, to a latter-day Odysseus looking for enlightenment and hope in the shadowy underworld of a cut-price supermarket. We see the changing shape of England itself, viewed from a satellite \"like a shipwreck's carcass raised on a sea-crane's hook, \/ nothing but keel, beams, spars, down to its bare bones.\" In this exquisite collection, Armitage X-rays the weary but ironic soul of his nation, with its \"Songs about mills and mines and a great war, \/ lines about mermaids and solid gold hills, \/ songs from broken hymnbooks and cheesy films\"—in poems that blend the lyrical and the vernacular, with his trademark eye for detail and biting wit.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47059675545840,"sku":"9781524732424","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781524732424_p0.jpg?v=1763737850","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781524732424","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}