The Astrakhan Cloak

by Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill

Book Overview

The Astrakhan Cloak offers poems selected from Feis, N? Dhomhnaill's collection in Irish, and translated by Paul Muldoon. N? Dhomhnaill's skillful negotiations between the forms, fables, and idioms of an older Ireland and the commodity culture, depth-psychology, and Eurospeak of modern Ireland are disclosed by the playful, accurate language of Muldoon who has been called the "most charismatic poet" of the British Isles.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0916390543
• ISBN13: 9780916390549
• Release Date: March 1993
• Publisher: Wake Forest University Press
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.6" x 8.4"