John Burnside
Born
in Dunfermline, Scotland
March 19, 1955
Genre
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The Dumb House
16 editions
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published
1997
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The Glister
26 editions
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published
2008
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A Summer of Drowning
17 editions
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published
2011
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The Devil's Footprints
24 editions
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published
2007
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Black Cat Bone: Poems
7 editions
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published
2011
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A Lie About My Father: A Memoir
13 editions
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published
2006
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Ashland & Vine
7 editions
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published
2017
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Something Like Happy
4 editions
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published
2013
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All One Breath
3 editions
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published
2014
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The Asylum Dance
4 editions
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published
2000
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“That's the wonderful thing with nerds: they're enthusiasts. Not having a life means you get to love things with a passion and nobody bothers you about it.”
― The Glister
― The Glister
“My father was one of those men who sit in a room and you can feel it: the simmer, the sense of some unpredictable force that might, at any moment, break loose, and do something terrible. [Burnside, p. 27]”
― A Lie About My Father: A Memoir
― A Lie About My Father: A Memoir
“and because what we learn in the dark
remains all our lives,
a noise like the sea, displacing the day's
pale knowledge,
you'll come to yourself
in a glimmer of rainfall or frost,
the burnt smell of autumn,
a meeting of parallel lines,
and know you were someone else
for the longest time,
pretending you knew where you were, like a diffident tourist,
lost on the one main square, and afraid to enquire.”
― Selected Poems
remains all our lives,
a noise like the sea, displacing the day's
pale knowledge,
you'll come to yourself
in a glimmer of rainfall or frost,
the burnt smell of autumn,
a meeting of parallel lines,
and know you were someone else
for the longest time,
pretending you knew where you were, like a diffident tourist,
lost on the one main square, and afraid to enquire.”
― Selected Poems
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