Howdie-Skelp: Poems
Book formats
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Hardcover No offers
Book short specifications
- Author
- Paul Muldoon
- Pages
- 192
- Publisher
- Farrar , Straus and Giroux
- Language
- english
- Release date
- November 16, 2021
- ISBN
- 978-0-374-60295-6
- GTIN
- 9780374602956
About
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.