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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 821.914
EAN: 9780374125431
ISBN: 0374125430
Label: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 479
Publication Date: April 18, 2001
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Sales Rank: 1050151
Studio: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Yet my eye is drawn once again,
Almost against its wishes,
To the figure in the shadows,
Willowy, and clean-shaven,
As if he simply wandered in
Between mending that fuse
And washing the breakfast dishes.
--from 'The Bearded Woman, by Ribera'
Sven Birkerts has said, 'It is not usual for a poet of Muldoon's years to have an oeuvre disclosing significant shifts and evolutions. But Muldoon, more than most, is an artist in high flight from self-repetition and the deadening business of living up to created expectations.' The body of work in Poems 1968-1998--a comprehensive gathering of Paul Muldoon's eight volumes---finds a great poet reinventing himself and recreating the business of poetry. The thirty-year effort of Muldoon's career thus far, is altogether like a fascinatingly mutable climate in which each freshening period brings---as his first collection was predictively titled---new weather.
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Rating:  - I love Paul Muldoon...
...I really do. The common criticism of Muldoon is that his constant use of mythical/literary allusion and Irish colloquial vocabulary makes him very difficult (if not impossible) to understand. I would argue, however, that this is Muldoon's point, especially in regards to his many elegies. Muldoon himself cannot access and express the depth of his mourning, and the diffult language he exposes the reader to assures that his feeling of insufficiency is not lost on anyone else. In my view, this is ... Read More
Rating:  - half-rating for a half-great book
If you happen to find this book torn in half in a used book shop, then buy only the first half. There you will find brilliant Muldoon. If you reaqd just that, you'll think he's the greatest Irish poet ever (or at least among the top three). I wish I could say the same for the last half.
Rating: - Glibly Great~Greatly Glib
If glibness can be elevated to greatness, then (as critics like to say), Muldoon has no peer. But that's a big "if". I picked up this volume based on a recent New York Times article where I read that (just in case you haven't heard yet) he is a Professor of Poetry at both Oxford and Princeton, having been inducted into the former at the tender age of 20. Surely, dear reader, you must know by now the unparalleled list of professorial poets produced by Oxford & Princeton? Need I name names?
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Rating: - A Poet of the First Order
I first encountered Paul Muldoon when he came to my university to give a reading and a seminar talk. When I picked up a photocopied packet of his poems and started to read through them, I was confused, then intrigued, then thrilled. When Muldoon arrived a few days later for the poetry reading and the seminar discussion, I was further impressed by this wonderful man, who has a deep understanding of poetry and language.
These poems are not "easy". Many of them require multiple readings to ... Read More
Rating: - Only the best living poet.
Forget Seamus Heaney, forget Galway Kinnell. Paul Muldoon is the thing. This is an excellent collection of his work. Click around here, find and read a couple of his poems, and you'll know.
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Dewey Decimal Number: 821.914
EAN: 9780374125431
ISBN: 0374125430
Label: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 479
Publication Date: April 18, 2001
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Sales Rank: 1050151
Studio: Farrar, Straus and Giroux