Moy sand and gravel
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Published
New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2002.
Format
Book
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
ix, 107 pages ; 22 cm.
Status
Seaside Branch - Adult Non-Fiction
821.914 M
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821.914 M
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Published
New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2002.
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
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Paul Muldoon's ninth collection of poems, his first since Hay (1998), 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, un unearthed pit pony, a loaf of bread, an outhouse, a killdeer, Oscar Wilde, or a flock of redknots. At 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.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Muldoon, P. (2002). Moy sand and gravel . Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Muldoon, Paul. 2002. Moy Sand and Gravel. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Muldoon, Paul. Moy Sand and Gravel Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2002.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Muldoon, Paul. Moy Sand and Gravel Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2002.
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