{"product_id":"howdie-skelp-poems-9780374606466","title":"Howdie-Skelp: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Pulitzer Prize-winning poet delivers a sharp wake-up call with his fourteenth collection.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA \"howdie-skelp\" is the slap in the face a midwife gives a newborn. It's a wake-up call. A call to action. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe poems in \u003ci\u003eHowdie-Skelp\u003c\/i\u003e, Paul Muldoon's astonishing collection, include a nightmarish remake of \u003ci\u003eThe Waste Land\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePaul Muldoon\u003c\/b\u003e was born in County Armagh in 1951. He now lives in New York. A former radio and television producer for the BBC in Belfast, he has taught at Princeton University for thirty years. He is the author of thirteen previous collections of poetry, including \u003ci\u003eMoy Sand and Gravel\u003c\/i\u003e, for which he won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize; \u003ci\u003eSelected Poems 1968-2014\u003c\/i\u003e; and, most recently, \u003ci\u003eFrolic and Detour\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50525788700946,"sku":"9780374606466","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_8da7d258-3263-4704-a8fe-94d2920885fe.jpg?v=1731238663","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/howdie-skelp-poems-9780374606466","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}