{"product_id":"howdie-skelp-poems-9780374606466","title":"Howdie-Skelp: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Paul Muldoon\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Farrar, Straus and Giroux\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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\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.","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45114870497431,"sku":"9780374606466","price":1340.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780374606466.webp?v=1767899876","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/howdie-skelp-poems-9780374606466","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}