The Pulitzer Prize?winning poet delivers a sharp wake-up call with his fourteenth collection. A ?howdie-skelp? is the slap in the face a midwife gives a newborn. It?s a wake-up call. A call to action. The poems in Howdie-Skelp, Paul Muldoon?s astonishing collection, include a nightmarish remake of The Waste Land, an elegy for his fellow Northern Irish poet Ciaran Carson, a crown of sonnets that responds to the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, a translation from the ninth-century Irish, and a Yeatsian sequence of ekphrastic poems that call into question the very idea of an ?affront? to good taste. Muldoon is a poet who continues not only to capture but to hold our attention.
Author: Paul Muldoon |
Publisher: Fsg Adult |
Publication Date: Nov 01, 2022 |
Number of Pages: 192 pages |
Language: English |
Binding: Paperback/Poetry |
ISBN-10: 0374606463 |
ISBN-13: 9780374606466 |