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Howdie-Skelp
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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…
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- Author: Paul Muldoon
- Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- ISBN-10: 0374606463
- ISBN-13: 9780374606466
- Format: 13.5 x 20.8 x 1.5 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English
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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.EXTRA 10 % discount with code: EXTRA
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- Author: Paul Muldoon
- Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- ISBN-10: 0374606463
- ISBN-13: 9780374606466
- Format: 13.5 x 20.8 x 1.5 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English 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 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.
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