Although Frolic and Detour is Paul Muldoon's thirteenth book, it has all the passion and provocation we more often associate with a first collection.

Ranging as it does from poems that take as their subject matter the Native American leaders Joseph Brant and Mangas Coloradas, through the Great War, the Irish Rising, hunting with eagles, the house wren, all the way to the day-to-day assault of twenty-first-century America, Frolic and Detour reminds us that the sidelong glance is the sweetest, the tangential approach the most telling. It also confirms Dwight Garner's assessment of Selected Poems 1968-2014 in the New York Times: 'a compact, powerful book, filled with catharses you didn't know you needed'.

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The stirring, mindful and deeply humane new collection of poems from Paul Muldoon - now in paperback.
Frolic and Detour is a perfect title: there's plenty of both in this new collection from Ireland's most ingenious poet . . . A treat.
The stirring, mindful and deeply humane new collection of poems from Paul Muldoon - now in paperback.

Product details

ISBN
9780571354504
Published
2022-04-21
Publisher
Faber & Faber; Faber & Faber
Weight
180 gr
Height
198 mm
Width
131 mm
Thickness
12 mm
Age
G, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
144

Author

Biographical note

Paul Muldoon was born in County Armagh in 1951. He is the author of twelve books of poetry including Moy Sand and Gravel, for which he received the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Since 1987 he has lived in the United States, where he is the Howard G. B. Clark Professor in the Humanities at Princeton University.