The title of "Horse Latitudes," Paul Muldoon's tenth collection of poetry, refers to those areas thirty degrees north and south of the equator where sailing ships tend to be becalmed, where stasis (if not stagnation) is the order of the day. From Bosworth Field to Beijing, the Boyne to Bull Run, from a series of text messages to the nineteenth ...
Of these 45 poems, 11 are sonnets, and many of them take Irish history and the Irish immigration to America as their subject. Moy is the poet's birthplace in Northern Ireland.
In "The End of the Poem," Paul Muldoon, "the most significant English-language poet born since the Second World War" ("The Times Literary Supplement"), presents engaging, rigorous, and insightful explorations of a diverse group of poems, from Yeats's "All Souls' Night" to Stevie Smith's "I Remember" to Fernando Pessoa's "Autopsychography." Here ...
This volume collects Muldoon's previous eight books in their entirety, in which Muldoon's love of scholarship and language intermingle in musical poems such as the book-length MADOC--A MYSTERY, a lyrical narrative that finds Samuel Coleridge and Robert Southy in America. Named a Notable Book by the New York Times in 2001.
In 1794, the poet-philosophers Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey decided to found a Utopian community on the banks of the Susquehanna, but ultimately the plan came to nothing. Muldoon's long title poem asks "What if?" they had succeeded in setting up their ideal society in Pennsylvania?
Paul Muldoon picks 75 poems as the best of the year--work by both big-name poets (Donald Justice, A. R. Ammons, Charles Simic) and relative unknowns (Victoria Chang, Stacey Harwood). He also includes a long excerpt from a book-length poem by Lyn Hejinian and a posthumous poem by John Ashbery about 9/11.
In Kerry Slides Paul Muldoon brings his gifts to bear on the Dingle peninsula of County Kerry, an area in which he has lived and to which he returns. His characteristically original observations and thrilling word plays, rooted here deep in the elemental beauty of the landscape and in its history, literature and mythology, are thrown into high ...
The libretto to an opera written with composer Daron Aric Hagen, BANDANNA is the story of illegal Mexican immigrants looking for refuge in Texas, where they encounter shady policemen--some of whom are helpful, some of whom are treacherous--and a web of sexual jealousy and corruption that ends up snuffing out the lives of several of the characters. ...
This work collects lectures on Irish literature delivered by Paul Muldoon in Oxford in 1998. One of Britain's most popular poets, Muldoon brings his erudition and imagination to bear on his prose as well, where his thorough exploration of the subject matter is associatively and poetically arranged. His insights on Irish literature lead him ...
In "The End of the Poem," Paul Muldoon dazzlingly explores a diverse group of poems, from Yeats's "All Souls' Night" to Stevie Smith's "I Remember" to Fernando Pessoa's "Autopsychography." Muldoon reminds us that the word "poem" comes, via French, from the Latin and Greek: "a thing made or created." He asks: Can a poem ever be a free-standing ...
Taking the death of Yeats in 1939 as its starting point, this anthology features selections from the work of ten Irish poets, including Patrick Kavanagh, Louis MacNeice, Thomas Kinsella, John Montague, Seamus Heaney, and Michael Longley.
A selection of work by the Irish poet, Paul Muldoon, including extracts from "Meeting the British" and "Annals of Chile", which have been published since the last selection appeared in 1986.
Muldoon's eighth book of poems--and his most delightful yet. Writing of Paul Muldoon's last collection, The Annals of Chile, for which he won the T. S. Eliot Prize, Seamus Heaney described him as "one of the era's true originals." A. S. Byatt has spoken of Muldoon as "an original genius, using words in a new way, witty and profound." That ...
'Aristophanes adicts unite! This book is for us. It has everything that we always wanted to know about Birds and we were unable to find in one place.' Greek Gazette 'The commentary elucidates with an experts knowledge of syntax, meter, and artifacts...The volume will remain authoritative for generations.' Religious Studies Review This is the first ...
Water quality concerns are not new to the Great Lakes. They emerged early in the 20th century, in 1909 and matured in 1972 and 1978. They remain a prominent part of today's conflicted politics and advancing industrial growth. The Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, under the Boundary Waters Treaty of 1909, became a model to the world for ...
An extraordinarily successful collaboration between the Irish poet, Paul Muldoon and the acclaimed Scottish photographer, Norman McBeath, in which there's an uncanny relationship between word and black-and-white image. Although a McBeath photograph (of a statue of Apollo wrapped in polythene) is directly invoked in one poem, much of the success of ...
This is a libretto, with music by the distinguished composer Daron Aric Hagen. It has an unlikely setting--Las Vegas, its airport and casinos--and a more unlikely cast of characters: the chorus of flight attendants, two shady characters named Trench and Trilby, an undercover INS agent named Doll, a shady pair of on-the-lam IRA volunteers, now ...
Byron's mature style is wonderfully discursive, ranging from Aristotle through hitting the sack to hitting the bottle sack, while relishing the rhyme on "Aristotle" and "bottle" along he way; he reminds us again and again that poetry can be serious without being solemn, that it might even be fun.
A poem set on a dinosaur-ridden planet agog with odd life-forms and minor earthquakes. Bert and Brunhilde Brontosaurus are engaged in a close encounter with Tyrannosaurus Rex, and it hinges on the intervention of a curious creature which acts like a walking thesaurus.
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