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Description for Shining Brow
Paperback. Commissioned as the libretto for an opera by US composer Daron Arik Hagen, this piece can be read as a dramatic poem in its own right. It tells the story of the American architect Frank Lloyd Wright and his affair with the wife of a millionaire client. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; AV; DC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 126 x 9. Weight in Grams: 80. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Originally commissioned by Madison Opera as a libretto for American composer Daron Aric Hagen, Shining Brow can be read as a dramatic poem in its own right. Displaying all the structural ingenuity and subtle resonance that have marked Paul Muldoon as the most influential poet of his generation, it tells, with suitable bravura, the story of architectural genius Frank Lloyd Wright and his catastrophic affair with the wife of a wealthy client.
Originally commissioned by Madison Opera as a libretto for American composer Daron Aric Hagen, Shining Brow can be read as a dramatic poem in its own right. Displaying all the structural ingenuity and subtle resonance that have marked Paul Muldoon as the most influential poet of his generation, it tells, with suitable bravura, the story of architectural genius Frank Lloyd Wright and his catastrophic affair with the wife of a wealthy client.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571167890
SKU
KSS0000581
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Paul Muldoon
Paul Muldoon was born in County Armagh in 1951. He read English at Queen's University, Belfast, and published his first collection of poems, New Weather, in 1973. He is the author of ten books of poetry, including Moy Sand and Gravel (2002), for which he received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and Horse Latitudes (2006). Since 1987 he has lived in the United States, where he is the Howard G. B. Clark Professor in the Humanities at Princeton University. From 1999 to 2004 he was Professor of Poetry at Oxford University. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Paul Muldoon was given an American Academy of Arts and Letters award in 1996. Other recent awards include the 1994 T. S. Eliot Prize, the 1997 Irish Times Poetry Prize, and the 2003 Griffin Prize.
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