{"product_id":"howdie-skelp-poems","title":"Howdie-Skelp: Poems","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eHowdie-Skelp: Poems\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003ePaul Muldoon\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780374606466\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eFSG Adult\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2022\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Pulitzer Prize-winning poet delivers a sharp wake-up call with his fourteenth collection.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\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.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"FSG Adult","offers":[{"title":"Howdie-Skelp: Poems | Paul Muldoon | Paperback | 9780374606466 | New | Poetry 1513150","offer_id":48163081158808,"sku":"1513150","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/71r2Rothv0L.jpg?v=1771876238","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/howdie-skelp-poems","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}