{"product_id":"black-cat-bone-paperback-1","title":"Black Cat Bone - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJohn Burnside\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Burnside\u003c\/b\u003e is a poet, fiction writer, and memoirist. His poetry has received the T. S. Eliot Prize, the Forward Prize, the Whitbread Poetry Award, and the Petrarca Preis. He lives in Fife, Scotland.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 80\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.2 x 7.7 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 07, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47353724993785,"sku":"9781555977146","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/yb03U0dkUA9781555977146_965f2d95-40f0-4420-9dfa-4792ba9a8511.webp?v=1769828423","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/black-cat-bone-paperback-1","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}