Description
Blending lyric intensity with political and linguistic daring, this collection moves through grief, memory, and the charged spaces between private loss and public life. At its core is an elegy for a miscarried child, rendered with a sustained, elegiac music that reshapes language into something both intimate and startling. Muldoon’s trademark innovation—his ability to echo and remake earlier voices, including a graceful reworking of Yeats—creates poems that feel at once classic in their craft and contemporary in their urgency. Across the book, themes of mourning, inheritance, and the moral weight of history converge, inviting readers to witness how language can both fail and persist in the face of what cannot be recovered.
Available Editions
paperback
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published Apr 15, 2004
107 pages
ISBN: 9780374528843
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Details
First Published
2002
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Moy Sand and Gravel by Paul Muldoon.