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Moy Sand and Gravel

Moy Sand and Gravel

Muldoon, Paul

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General Poetry

Publisher Price: $19.00

ISBN10: 0374528845
ISBN13: 9780374528843
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: Apr 15 2004
Pages: 107
Weight: 0.33
Height: 0.37 Width: 5.20 Depth: 7.82
Language: English
Awards: Pulitzer Prize

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Moy Sand and Gravel by Paul Muldoon, the most significant English-language poet born since the Second World War (The Times Literary Supplement).

Paul Muldoon's ninth collection of poems, his first since Hay, 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.

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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