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Howdie-Skelp
Paul Muldoon
Howdie-Skelp
Paul Muldoon
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 new collection, include a nightmarish remake of The Waste Land, an elegy for his fellow Northern Irish poet Ciaran Carson, a heroic 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 command our attention.
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | November 1, 2022 |
ISBN13 | 9780374606466 |
Publishers | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Pages | 192 |
Dimensions | 137 × 210 × 25 mm · 217 g |
Language | English |
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