Howdie-Skelp: Poems

by Paul Muldoon

Book Overview

The Pulitzer Prize-winning poet delivers a sharp wake-up call with his fourteenth collection.

A "howdie-skelp" is the slap in the face a midwife gives a newborn. It's a wake-up call. A call to action.

The poems in Howdie-Skelp, Paul Muldoon's astonishing collection, include a nightmarish remake of The Waste Land, an elegy for his fellow Northern Irish poet Ciaran Carson, a crown of sonnets that responds to the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374606463
• ISBN13: 9780374606466
• Release Date: November 2022
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 8.2"