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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN-10
0374602956
ISBN-13
9780374602956
eBay Product ID (ePID)
13050065866
Product Key Features
Book Title
Howdie-Skelp : Poems
Number of Pages
192 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2021
Topic
General, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Genre
Poetry
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
11.3 Oz
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Width
5.4 in
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Trade
LCCN
2021-028286
Reviews
"[A] storm of slaps against piety, prudery, cruelty and greed . . . Like Eliot, Muldoon's after big, apocalyptic vision; unlike Eliot, Muldoon is willing--no, compelled--to clown . . . Like many important poets before him, from John Milton to Tim Rice, Muldoon knows that sinners and villains are more interesting, maybe more human, than self-appointed good guys. Poems, for Muldoon, are occasions to plumb the language for a truth that's abysmal: as in appalling, and as in deep." --Daisy Fried, The New York Times Book Review "Truly, is there any living poet with as skilled and rambunctious an ear as Paul Muldoon? . . . One of the pleasures of Muldoon's poems is the way they make reality seem to go right to the verge of surrealism, the very shaky lip of it. How does he do it?" --Jesse Nathan, McSweeney's " Howdie-Skelp . . . offers the kind of slap that great poetry from the likes of William Butler Yeats or Seamus Heaney can produce, the kind of poetry that can make a reader wince with delight." --Michael Pearson, The New York Journal of Books "When considering a poet as protean as Muldoon, analogies fail . . . Muldoon's poetry remains unremittingly consequential." -- Booklist, Named a Best Book of the Year by Financial Times "[A] storm of slaps against piety, prudery, cruelty and greed . . . Like Eliot, Muldoon's after big, apocalyptic vision; unlike Eliot, Muldoon is willing--no, compelled--to clown . . . Like many important poets before him, from John Milton to Tim Rice, Muldoon knows that sinners and villains are more interesting, maybe more human, than self-appointed good guys. Poems, for Muldoon, are occasions to plumb the language for a truth that's abysmal: as in appalling, and as in deep." --Daisy Fried, The New York Times Book Review "Truly, is there any living poet with as skilled and rambunctious an ear as Paul Muldoon? . . . One of the pleasures of Muldoon's poems is the way they make reality seem to go right to the verge of surrealism, the very shaky lip of it. How does he do it?" --Jesse Nathan, McSweeney's " Howdie-Skelp . . . offers the kind of slap that great poetry from the likes of William Butler Yeats or Seamus Heaney can produce, the kind of poetry that can make a reader wince with delight." --Michael Pearson, The New York Journal of Books "When considering a poet as protean as Muldoon, analogies fail . . . Muldoon's poetry remains unremittingly consequential." -- Booklist, Named a Best Book of the Year by Financial Times, Irish Times , and The Guardian (UK) "[A] storm of slaps against piety, prudery, cruelty and greed . . . Like Eliot, Muldoon's after big, apocalyptic vision; unlike Eliot, Muldoon is willing--no, compelled--to clown . . . Like many important poets before him, from John Milton to Tim Rice, Muldoon knows that sinners and villains are more interesting, maybe more human, than self-appointed good guys. Poems, for Muldoon, are occasions to plumb the language for a truth that's abysmal: as in appalling, and as in deep." --Daisy Fried, The New York Times Book Review "Truly, is there any living poet with as skilled and rambunctious an ear as Paul Muldoon? . . . One of the pleasures of Muldoon's poems is the way they make reality seem to go right to the verge of surrealism, the very shaky lip of it. How does he do it?" --Jesse Nathan, McSweeney's " Howdie-Skelp . . . offers the kind of slap that great poetry from the likes of William Butler Yeats or Seamus Heaney can produce, the kind of poetry that can make a reader wince with delight." --Michael Pearson, The New York Journal of Books "When considering a poet as protean as Muldoon, analogies fail . . . Muldoon's poetry remains unremittingly consequential." -- Booklist, ""[A] storm of slaps against piety, prudery, cruelty and greed . . . Like Eliot, Muldoon's after big, apocalyptic vision; unlike Eliot, Muldoon is willing--no, compelled--to clown . . . Like many important poets before him, from John Milton to Tim Rice, Muldoon knows that sinners and villains are more interesting, maybe more human, than self-appointed good guys. Poems, for Muldoon, are occasions to plumb the language for a truth that's abysmal: as in appalling, and as in deep." --Daisy Fried, The New York Times Book Review "Truly, is there any living poet with as skilled and rambunctious an ear as Paul Muldoon? . . . One of the pleasures of Muldoon's poems is the way they make reality seem to go right to the verge of surrealism, the very shaky lip of it. How does he do it?" --Jesse Nathan, McSweeney's "When considering a poet as protean as Muldoon, analogies fail . . . Muldoon's poetry remains unremittingly consequential." -- Booklist, Named a Best Book of the Year by Financial Times and The Guardian (UK) "[A] storm of slaps against piety, prudery, cruelty and greed . . . Like Eliot, Muldoon's after big, apocalyptic vision; unlike Eliot, Muldoon is willing--no, compelled--to clown . . . Like many important poets before him, from John Milton to Tim Rice, Muldoon knows that sinners and villains are more interesting, maybe more human, than self-appointed good guys. Poems, for Muldoon, are occasions to plumb the language for a truth that's abysmal: as in appalling, and as in deep." --Daisy Fried, The New York Times Book Review "Truly, is there any living poet with as skilled and rambunctious an ear as Paul Muldoon? . . . One of the pleasures of Muldoon's poems is the way they make reality seem to go right to the verge of surrealism, the very shaky lip of it. How does he do it?" --Jesse Nathan, McSweeney's " Howdie-Skelp . . . offers the kind of slap that great poetry from the likes of William Butler Yeats or Seamus Heaney can produce, the kind of poetry that can make a reader wince with delight." --Michael Pearson, The New York Journal of Books "When considering a poet as protean as Muldoon, analogies fail . . . Muldoon's poetry remains unremittingly consequential." -- Booklist, "When considering a poet as protean as Muldoon, analogies fail . . . Muldoon's poetry remains unremittingly consequential." -- Booklist
Table Of Content
Wagtail American Standard A Ruin Shoot 'Em Up Damsons Bramleys, Not Grenadiers 23 Banned Poems The Dirty Protest A Postcard from Saint Bart's Mayday Anonymous: The Vikings Clegs and Midges The Fly The Pangolin, Or Vasty The Ice Fishers Binge Cow Moose, Route 125, Ripton, Vermont Chipmunk The Triumph Salonica The Banisters The Sheet Le Jongleur An Item Oscar Wilde at the Pavilion Hotel Viral A Bull Plaguey Hill Acknowledgments
Synopsis
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 heroic 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 command our attention.
LC Classification Number
PR6063.U367H69 2021
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- 5***5 (82)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchasepretty much as described…it’s not 100% perfect some minor scuffs on the plastic/sleeve but nothing that will make me leave a negative review… the seller has great communication, I was out of town. I asked if he could wait a day before sending off he did I received it. Transaction complete I would buy again and I’m probably going to buy from him in the near future. I rather buy from a seller-with the item I’m looking for that cost $1-$2 more than other sellers, but is reliable
- j***h (3694)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseBook was shipped fast and packed correctly. The description was spot on. *****5***** Honest seller.
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