{"product_id":"howdie-skelp-9780374602956b","title":"Howdie-Skelp","description":"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eThe Pulitzer Prize–winning poet delivers a sharp wake-up call with his fourteenth collection.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe poems in \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eHowdie-Skelp\u003c\/span\u003e, Paul Muldoon’s new collection, include a nightmarish remake of\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003e The Waste Land\u003c\/span\u003e, an elegy for his fellow Northern Irish poet Ciaran Carson, a heroic 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 command our attention.","brand":"Farrar Straus Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42826912071760,"sku":"9780374602956B","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/8173\/5760\/files\/9780374602956-l.jpg?v=1785908025","url":"https:\/\/bookoutlet.com\/fr\/products\/howdie-skelp-9780374602956b","provider":"Book Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}