{"product_id":"muldoon-paul-howdie-skelp-hb-copy","title":"Muldoon, Paul: Howdie-Skelp (HB)","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFarrar, Straus \u0026amp; Giroux, hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePublication Date: November 2, 2021\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePublisher Marketing: The Pulitzer Prize-winning poet delivers a sharp wake-up call with his fourteenth collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA \"howdie-skelp\" is the slap in the face a midwife gives a newborn. It's a wake-up call. A call to action.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe poems in \u003ci\u003eHowdie-Skelp\u003c\/i\u003e, Paul Muldoon's new 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\/p\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44220063121431,"sku":"9780374602956","price":13.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/products\/pm_67ff04cc-e582-41b6-898e-997b9c2cca90.gif?v=1616186612","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/muldoon-paul-howdie-skelp-hb-copy","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}