Paul Muldoon

Howdie-Skelp (eBook, ePUB)

Poems

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. November 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780374602963
• Artikelnr.: 60786358

Autorenporträt

Paul Muldoon

Inhaltsangabe

Wagtail
American Standard
A Ruin
Shoot 'Em Up
Damsons
Bramleys, Not Grenadiers
23 Banned Poems
The Dirty Protest
A Postcard from Saint Bart's
Mayday
Anonymous: The Vikings
Clegs and Midges
The Fly
The Pangolin, Or Vasty
The Ice Fishers
Binge
Cow Moose, Route 125, Ripton, Vermont
Chipmunk
The Triumph
Salonica
The Banisters
The Sheet
Le Jongleur
An Item
Oscar Wilde at the Pavilion Hotel
Viral
A Bull
Plaguey Hill
Acknowledgments

Rezensionen

Very few poets, living or otherwise, can combine high-speed wit, tongue-twisting alliteration and dizzying rhyme with the kind of insight that makes us pause, laugh, remember; feel envious, out of breath, punch-drunk. Kit Fan Guardian