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Howdie-Skelp: Poems

Howdie-Skelp: Poems

Muldoon, Paul

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ISBN10: 0374602956
ISBN13: 9780374602956
Publisher: Farrar Strauss & Giroux
Published: Nov 16 2021
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.40
Language: English

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 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.

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