John Burnside. (2015). Black Cat Bone: Poems. Graywolf Press.

John Burnside. 2015. Black Cat Bone: Poems. Graywolf Press.

John Burnside, Black Cat Bone: Poems. Graywolf Press, 2015.

John Burnside. Black Cat Bone: Poems. Graywolf Press, 2015.

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Winner of both the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Forward Prize, Black Cat Bone is the first American publication of the poetry of John Burnside

Before the songs I sang there were the songs
they came from, patent shreds
of Babel, and the secret
Nineveh of back rooms in the dark.
Hour after hour
the night trains blundered through
from towns so far away and innocent
that everything I knew seemed fictional:
—from "Death Room Blues"
John Burnside's Black Cat Bone 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. Black Cat Bone introduces American readers to one of the best poets writing across the Atlantic.

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Before the songs I sang there were the songs
they came from, patent shreds
of Babel, and the secret
Nineveh of back rooms in the dark.
Hour after hour
the night trains blundered through
from towns so far away and innocent
that everything I knew seemed fictional:
—from "Death Room Blues"
John Burnside's Black Cat Bone 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. Black Cat Bone introduces American readers to one of the best poets writing across the Atlantic.

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   • source: Lucie Brock-Broido
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     "John Burnside's Black Cat Bone arrives in America as one of the most feral British collections of poems I've read in years. His voice is shot through with its own lyric genius, one that ruptures and raptures, hunts and hurts, and haunts and heals. The poems are bloodwarm, lucid, even in what he calls 'the curdled glaze of everafter.' He dares to sing of Song. He marries grace to gall. His daylight is carrion, he writes, but the light he casts at night is almost velvet to the touch. And he's a sneaky jackal of a formalist, tenderly rendering, stealthy and beguiling all at once. These poems provoke an 'infinite kinship' with their reader. I am utterly taken with Burnside's hand and craft and heart."

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   • source: Robert Wrigley
   • content: "The mystery of how this volume could be--after more than a dozen collections in the UK, not to mention novels, memoirs, short stories, and essays--the first book of John Burnside's poems to appear in the US is now immaterial. Black Cat Bone is Burnside at his best, and its appearance will make its readers want more. He is a poet of 'the sonar that runs in the spine.' He is, in other words, deeply in touch with what it means to walk upon this earth, and he delivers regularly electrifying expressions of the condition we call human. 'The only gift,' he writes, 'is knowing we belong / to nothing.' Now, however, his poems can belong to us, and that is something to celebrate. It's a gift, from one of the most important poets in the language."
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     June 15, 2015
     The prolific Scottish poet, novelist, and memoirist (A Summer of Drowning) has such a high profile in the U.K. that it’s a shock to realize this volume—his 14th collection in Britain—is his first set of poems to be published here. With his mellifluous pentameters, attention to the immaterial, and his turning aside from the ultramodern (though he remains modern), we might call Burnside Heaneyesque, though he is also Gothic, mythic, and almost (delightfully) morbid—seeing death, or the dead, or bad omens, almost everywhere. “We live in peril, die from happenstance,” he muses, “a casual slip, a fault line in the ice,” though the skaters in this poem survive. Burnside’s gift for narrative serves him in the quest that opens the volume, in which a man seeks “the curious/ pleasure of the doomed.” Burnside’s children, like his adults, are haunted, trailed by “a ghost in the undergrowth” and flanked by trappings of a religion that can express grief but cannot prevent it. “The things I love/ I bury in the woods/ to keep them safe.” Readers of Burnside’s memoirs will link the man’s rough, unreliable upbringing, with an alcoholic fabulist father, to his unforgiving, unchanging spirit world; other readers might just lose themselves in the language, as if under a predator’s ominous spell.

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     Starred review from July 1, 2015
     

     "Broken gold/ and crimson in the medieval// beechwoods." "Cumbersome bodies, shrouded in gunsmoke and cyan." "The smell of the woods and the barberry shadows." Scottish poet/novelist Burnside, who won both the Forward and the T.S. Eliot Prizes for this collection, offers fabulist poems in lush, sometimes archaic language that's meant to unsettle, even as it explores our most unsettled feelings. As Burnside shows, we are defined more by longing than by what we get, by anticipation--our hopes and fears--than by what we accomplish. For instance, in the stunning opening poem, during a hunt set in an unspecified time and place and in fact somewhat out of time and place ("when one man sickened and died,/ another would take his place in the wandering column,// blacksmiths and lawyers, orchardmen, butchers in waiting"), one young hunter separates from the rest to chase the mysterious, perhaps ineffable quarry and finally shoots without success, returning home to find "nobody lives here now, not even me." Other poems echo the man-in-nature theme or make biblical or folkloric allusions, and the result is a deep sense of the elemental, of what it means to be "pure as animals." VERDICT Highly recommended, even for readers intimated by startling imagery.--Barbara Hoffert, Library Journal

     Copyright 2015 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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     July 1, 2015
     Burnside, a Scottish author of more than a dozen books of poetry and fiction, including The Glister (2009), won both the coveted T. S. Eliot Prize and the Forward Prize with this, his first collection of poetry to be released in the U.S. The title refers to an especially powerful hoodoo talisman, and Burnside imbues his verse with the enchanted landscapes of his Scottish origins. Composed in loose lines and ambling stanzas, the language of forestry and agriculture haunts the work. As the external world takes shape, Burnside furnishes the interior states of his speakers, as in the masterful poem Insomnia in Southern Illinois, where a barred owl's call is more echo than threat, where the mind is a hall / and thought is the voice of another. Likewise, The Listener includes this gem: There's nothing so final as want / on a summer's night, / and few things so tender or sure / as a knock at the door. A magical, lyrical imagining that expertly blends universal desire and distinct locale. Recommended for anyone invested in English-language poetry.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2015, American Library Association.)

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