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Poems 1968-1998

By Paul Muldoon

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| Paperback | 9780374528447

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Book Description

"Ireland"
The Volkswagen parked in the gap,
But gently ticking over.
You wonder if it's lovers
And not men hurrying back
Across two fields and a river.

Sven Birkerts has said, "It is not usual for a poet of Muldoon's years to have . . . an oeuContinue

"Ireland"
The Volkswagen parked in the gap,
But gently ticking over.
You wonder if it's lovers
And not men hurrying back
Across two fields and a river.

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 at every turn. Muldoon's career thus far shows us a fascinatingly mutable climate in which each freshening period brings -- as his first collection was predictively titled -- new weather."

Critics

  • A poet of perfect poise

    Poems 1968-1998 Paul Muldoon 494pp, Faber, £12.99 A well-known story has it that when the young Paul Muldoon, then still at school, sent a sheaf of poems to Seamus Heaney accompanied by the question "What is wrong with these?", Heaney replied with ju ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 496 Pages
  • Edition: Reprint
  • ISBN-10: 0374528446
  • ISBN-13: 9780374528447
  • Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  • Pub date: Apr 03, 2002
  • Dimensions: 1355 mm x 903 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Hardcover and eBook
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