Bandanna: An Opera in Two Acts and a Prologue - Softcover

Hagen, Daron; Muldoon, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571197620 ISBN 13: 9780571197620

Publisher: Faber & Faber, 1999

Synopsis

Following his highly praised Shining Brow (1993), which was also written as an opera libretto for the American composer Daron Aric Hagen, Paul Muldoon's Bandanna takes us into very different territory. Its action is set in a small town on the Mexican border; it includes illegal immigrants and a corrupt law officer among its dramatis personae; but at its heart is an old-fashioned tale of sexual jealousy and murderous revenge.
The drama is powered by a strong emotional thrust, most of it conveyed in the form of popular song, and leads to a shattering climax. Bandanna demonstrates yet again the ever-increasing range of this most versatile of poets.

About this title

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0571197620
• ISBN 13: 9780571197620
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 52