{"product_id":"moy-sand-and-gravel-1","title":"Moy Sand and Gravel","description":"\u003ch1\u003eMoy Sand and Gravel\u003c\/h1\u003ePaul Muldoon,Paul Muldoon\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux\u003cbr\u003eApril 15 2004\u003cbr\u003eEAN: 9780374528843\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 0374528845\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eItems marked as \u003cb\u003eWAREHOUSE\u003c\/b\u003e may take additional time to be delivered to your address or picked up in the store.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSynopsis: \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Pulitzer Prize, \u003ci\u003eMoy Sand and Gravel\u003c\/i\u003e by Paul Muldoon, \"the most significant English-language poet born since the Second World War\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaul Muldoon's ninth collection of poems, his first since \u003ci\u003eHay\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt 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.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"27th Letter Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67390774214701,"sku":"WHS-032352c36f1a41768dc3bf104d0a1da0","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0673\/3588\/0749\/files\/original_de320a88-cd56-4f93-b9ed-b9b6729fda80.jpg?v=1787347023","url":"https:\/\/27thletterbooks.com\/products\/moy-sand-and-gravel-1","provider":"27th Letter Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}