Howdie-Skelp

The Pulitzer Prizeûwinning poet delivers a sharp wake-up call with his fourteenth collection. A ôhowdie-skelpö is the slap in the face a midwife gives a newborn. ItÆs a wake-up call. A call to action. The poems in Howdie-Skelp, Paul MuldoonÆs 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 ôaffrontö 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