{"product_id":"muldoon-paul-moy-sand","title":"Muldoon, Paul: Moy Sand and Gravel","description":"\u003cp\u003eFarrar, Straus and Giroux, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: April 15, 2004\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWinner of the Pulitzer Prize, \u003ci\u003eMoy Sand and Gravel\u003c\/i\u003e by Paul Muldoon, \"the most significant English-language poet born since the Second World War\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaul Muldoon's ninth collection of poems, his first since \u003ci\u003eHay\u003c\/i\u003e, finds him working a rich vein that extends from the rivery, apple-heavy County Armagh of the 1950s, in which he was brought up, to suburban New Jersey, on the banks of a canal dug by Irish navvies, where he now lives. Grounded, glistening, as gritty as they are graceful, these poems seem capable of taking in almost anything, and anybody, be it a Tuareg glimpsed on the Irish border, Bessie Smith, Marilyn Monroe, Queen Elizabeth I, a hunted hare, William Tell, William Butler Yeats, Sitting Bull, Ted Hughes, an otter, a fox, Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Joscelyne, an unearthed pit pony, a loaf of bread, an outhouse, a killdeer, Oscar Wilde, or a flock of redknots.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt the heart of the book is an elegy for a miscarried child, and that elegiac tone predominates, particularly in the elegant remaking of Yeats's \"A Prayer for My Daughter\" with which the book concludes, where a welter of traffic signs and slogans, along with the spirits of admen, hardware storekeepers, flimflammers, fixers, and other forebears, are borne along by a hurricane-swollen canal, and private grief coincides with some of the gravest matter of our age.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40817132208151,"sku":"9780374528843","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/products\/view_archive_685e9031-5e82-4b3a-9fc4-64b0b444ce25.jpg?v=1703281047","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/muldoon-paul-moy-sand","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}