{"product_id":"burnfort-las-vegas-martina-evans-9780856464577","title":"Burnfort Las Vegas","description":"\"She is at once emotional and shrewd: hidden behind the rich lace-curtain of her personal charm, her existentialism sings.\"--Thomas McCarthy \"Martina Evans's poems are a miracle, for the way they combine total clarity with profundity: the way the apparently innocent and observant humour of their narrative surface covers a compassion and understanding that are often heartbreaking and heartbroken.\"-- Bernard O'Donoghue Following her prose poem-cum-novella Petrol (2013), Martina Evans returns to her childhood and adolescence in County Cork, Ireland, with poems and prose poems which begin with the impact of American culture and particularly rock 'n' roll on the small town where she grew up. \u003ci\u003eWe move the Sacred Heart lamp\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ecloser to Elvis's face now in the month\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eof June. I think that those\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ebillboards of Vegas\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ecould be the Major cigarette sign\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eor the Double Diamond Works Wonders\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ein the lounge window round '75\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eor the BP pump shining\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ein the blue Burnfort evening . . .\u003c\/i\u003e We encounter ghosts, travelers, shoes, old movies, alcoholics, and even Bart Simpson in Evans's poems as we move from her school and college days, with their eccentric cast of teachers, to contemporary London and the sights, sounds, and characters of Balls Pond Road, where she lives with her daughter and three cats. The book ends with a series of poems about youthful reading--from clandestine reading in class to the joy and escape of childhood reading--\"the miracle \/ of the black marks straightening themselves \/ out into sense across the page.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Martina Evans\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0856464570\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780856464577\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Anvil Press Poetry\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/03\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 64\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.30w x 0.40d","brand":"Martina Evans","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48441370411263,"sku":"9780856464577","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2b052234-bc70-4a11-b2b1-65dc5b7a9331.jpg?v=1777190454","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/burnfort-las-vegas-martina-evans-9780856464577","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}