{"product_id":"frolic-and-detour-paul-muldoon-9780374539108","title":"Frolic and Detour: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA new collection from the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThough \u003ci\u003eFrolic and Detour\u003c\/i\u003e is Paul Muldoon's thirteenth collection, it shows all the energy and ambition we might generally associate with a first book. Here, the poet brings his characteristic humor and humanity to the chickadee, the house wren, the deaths of Leonard Cohen and C. K. Williams, the Irish Rising, the Great War, and how \"a streak of ragwort \/ may yet shine \/ as an off-the-record \/ remark becomes the party line.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrolic and Detour\u003c\/i\u003e reminds us that the sidelong glance is the sweetest, the tangential approach the most telling, and shows us why Paul Muldoon was described by Nick Laird, writing in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, as \"the most formally ambitious and technically innovative of modern poets,  who] writes poems like no one else.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Paul Muldoon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0374539103\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780374539108\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Farrar, Straus and Giroux\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/03\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 144\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.00w x 0.50d","brand":"Paul Muldoon","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43983211888895,"sku":"9780374539108","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d262bd1a-bc02-4195-b07e-0319d1ffbf59.jpg?v=1683265307","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/frolic-and-detour-paul-muldoon-9780374539108","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}