The Astrakhan Cloak offers poems selected from Feis, Ni Dhomhnaill s collection in Irish, and translated by Paul Muldoon. Ni 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."