{"product_id":"black-cat-bone-poems-9781555977146","title":"Black Cat Bone: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of both the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Forward Prize, \u003ci\u003eBlack Cat Bone\u003c\/i\u003e is the first American publication of the poetry of John Burnside\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBefore the songs I sang there were the songs\u003cbr\u003ethey came from, patent shreds\u003cbr\u003eof Babel, and the secret\u003cbr\u003eNineveh of back rooms in the dark. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHour after hour\u003cbr\u003ethe night trains blundered through\u003cbr\u003efrom towns so far away and innocent\u003cbr\u003ethat everything I knew seemed fictional: \u003cbr\u003e --from Death Room Blues \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJohn Burnside's \u003ci\u003eBlack Cat Bone\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003ci\u003e Black Cat Bone\u003c\/i\u003e introduces American readers to one of the best poets writing across the Atlantic.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Graywolf Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/07\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781555977146\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 80\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.70h x 5.30w x 0.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/15\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2015 pg. 87\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2015 pg. 17\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/04\/2015\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"John Burnside","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43361498300597,"sku":"9781555977146","price":14.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_4e48cec9-e65f-45b2-96f2-ce89313c9db8.jpg?v=1701191024","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/black-cat-bone-poems-9781555977146","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}