Black Cat Bone: Poems Contributor(s): Burnside, John (Author) |
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ISBN: 1555977146 ISBN-13: 9781555977146 Publisher: Graywolf Press OUR PRICE: $14.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2015 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Poetry | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
Dewey: 821.92 |
LCCN: 2014960048 |
Physical Information: 0.2" H x 5.3" W x 7.7" (0.20 lbs) 80 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Burnside, John: - JOHN BURNSIDE has published five works of fiction and nine collections of poetry, including The Asylum Dance, which won the 2001 Whitbread Poetry Award. |