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Shining brow

Paul Muldoon - undifferentiated

199386 pagesabout 1–2 hours
1993
first published
  • 1993Faber and Faber · 86 pages · ENGISBN 9780571167890
  • 1995E.C. Schirmer · 304 pages · ENGISBN 9780911318203
  • 2011Faber & Faber, Limited · ENGISBN 9780571263905

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.

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