First edition. Slim 8vo. Pp. [x], 90, [12, blank]. Publisher's blue cloth lettered in ecru to spine; pumpkin-yellow end papers.
Winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the 2003 Griffin Poetry Prize. Shortlisted for the 2002 T.S. Eliot Prize. Poetry Book Society Choice.
Incorporating a diverse range of subject matter and an array of different poetic forms, Muldoon's ninth poetry collection moves from his childhood County Armagh of the 1950s to present day New Jersey where he now lives. It includes a moving elegy for a miscarried child and a re-working of Yeats' 'A Prayer for My Daughter'. Recipient of the 2017 Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry, Muldoon is presently the Howard G. B. Clark Professor in the Humanities at Princeton University.
"The most significant English-language poet born since the Second World War." –The Times Literary Supplement