Black Cat Bone: Poems - Paperback

Name: Black Cat Bone: Poems - Paperback
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SKU: 9781555977146
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by John Burnside

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Book Overview

Winner of both the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Forward Prize, Black Cat Bone is the first American publication of the poetry of John Burnside

Before the songs I sang there were the songs
they came from, patent shreds
of Babel, and the secret
Nineveh of back rooms in the dark.

Hour after hour
the night trains blundered through
from towns so far away and innocent
that everything I knew seemed fictional:
--from "Death Room Blues"

John Burnside's Black Cat Bone is full of poems of thwarted love and disappointment, raw desire, the stalking beast. One sequence tells of an obsessive lover coming to grief in echoes of the old murder ballads, and another longer poem describes a hunter losing himself in the woods while pursuing an unknown and possibly unknowable quarry. Black Cat Bone introduces American readers to one of the best poets writing across the Atlantic.

ISBN	9781555977146
Author	John Burnside
Publisher	Graywolf Press
Genre	Literature
Format	Paperback
Published	July 2015
Language	ENG- English
Pages	80
Weight	1.0 lb
Target Audience	Adults
Print Size	Standard Print

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