{"product_id":"books-moy-sand-and-gravel-by-paul-muldoon","title":"Moy Sand and Gravel","description":"\u003cp\u003ePaul Muldoon's ninth collection of poems, his first since \u003ci\u003eHay\u003c\/i\u003e (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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMoy Sand and Gravel\u003c\/i\u003e is the winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53674943709457,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780374214807.jpg?v=1781536762","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/books-moy-sand-and-gravel-by-paul-muldoon","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}