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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Winner of the Forward Prize for Poetry 2011 and the T.S. Eliot Prize 2011John Burnside's remarkable book is full of strange, unnerving poems that hang in the memory like a myth or a song. These are poems of thwarted love and disappointment, of raw desire, of the stalking beast, 'eye-teeth/and muzzle/coated with blood'; poems that recognise 'we have too much to gain from the gods, and this is why/they fail to love us'; poems that tell of an obsessive lover coming to grief in a sequence that echoes the old murder ballads, or of a hunter losing himself in the woods while pursuing an unknown and possibly unknowable quarry.Drawing on sources as various as the paintings of Pieter Brueghel and the lyrics of Delta blues, Black Cat Bone examines varieties of love, faith, hope and illusion, to suggest an unusual possibility- that when the search for what we expected to find - in the forest or in our own hearts - ends in failure, we can now begin the hard and disciplined quest for what is actually there.Full of risk and wonder, Black Cat Bone shows the range of Burnside's abilities, but also strikes out for new territories. He remains consistently, though, one of our finest living lyric poets and each of these astonishing poems is as clear and memorable as 'a silver bracelet//falling for days/through an inch and a half/of ice'. Drawing on various sources, this book examines varieties of love, faith, hope and illusion, to suggest an unusual possibility: that when the search for what we expected to find - in the forest or in our own hearts - ends in failure, we can now begin the hard and disciplined quest for what is actually there. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780224093859
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 80 pages. 7.80x5.12x0.28 inches. In Stock. Seller Inventory # __0224093851
Book Description Paperback / softback. Condition: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days. John Burnside's remarkable book is full of strange, unnerving poems that hang in the memory like a myth or a song. poems that tell of an obsessive lover coming to grief in a sequence that echoes the old murder ballads, or of a hunter losing himself in the woods while pursuing an unknown and possibly unknowable quarry. Seller Inventory # B9780224093859
Book Description Condition: New. 2011. First Edition. Paperback. Drawing on various sources, this book examines varieties of love, faith, hope and illusion, to suggest an unusual possibility: that when the search for what we expected to find - in the forest or in our own hearts - ends in failure, we can now begin the hard and disciplined quest for what is actually there. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 140 x 8. Weight in Grams: 126. . . . . . Seller Inventory # V9780224093859
Book Description Condition: New. 2011. First Edition. Paperback. Drawing on various sources, this book examines varieties of love, faith, hope and illusion, to suggest an unusual possibility: that when the search for what we expected to find - in the forest or in our own hearts - ends in failure, we can now begin the hard and disciplined quest for what is actually there. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 140 x 8. Weight in Grams: 126. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. Seller Inventory # V9780224093859
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