| Synopsis: |
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 Latin, from Anglo-Saxon, from Medieval Welsh, from Greek, and from Irish. The cahier is completed by drawings and an etching by the Sicilian artist Lanfranco Quadrio." |