Howdie-Skelp: Poems
Paperback/Poetry 192 pages English Nov 01, 2022
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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.
- Author:
- Paul Muldoon
- Publisher:
- Fsg Adult
- Publication Date:
- Nov 01, 2022
- Number of pages:
- 192 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback/Poetry
- ISBN-10:
- 0374606463
- ISBN-13:
- 9780374606466