Product Description

This cahier presents new work by the celebrated Irish poet Paul Muldoon. After a preface in which the poet explains what for him is the importance of translating, there follow four original works, 'The Windshield', 'Balls' (a five-sonnet sequence), 'Quail', and the title series of poems, 'When the Pie Was Opened'. Interspersed with these are the poet s translations: from the Latin of Ovid, from the Anglo-Saxon, from the Medieval Welsh of Dafydd ap Gwilym, from the Greek of Kostis Palamas, and from the Irish. The cahier is completed by drawings and an etching by the Sicilian artist Lanfranco Quadrio.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #527808 in Books
• Published on: 2008-05-20
• Format: Illustrated
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 44 pages