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Black Cat Bone (Paperback)
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Black Cat Bone (Paperback)
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John 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'.
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