Frolic and Detour

Frolic and Detour is Paul Muldoon's thirteenth book, filled with passion and provocation, reminding us that the sidelong glance is the sweetest and the tangential approach the most telling. It confirms Dwight Garner's assessment of Selected Poems 1968-2014 as a compact, powerful book filled with catharses.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 144 pages
Publication date: 21 April 2022
Publisher: Faber & Faber

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.

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.

Weight: 180g
Dimension: 198 x 131 x 12 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780571354504
Edition number: Main