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Black Cat Bone
Engelsk Paperback
Black Cat Bone
Engelsk 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.

‘The unmistakeable work of a master’ Times Literary Supplement

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
80
ISBN-13:
9780224093859
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0224093851
Udg. Dato:
4 aug 2011
Længde:
8mm
Bredde:
140mm
Højde:
201mm
Forlag:
Vintage Publishing
Oplagsdato:
4 aug 2011
Forfatter(e):
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