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Poems 1968-1998

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ISBN-10: 0374528446

ISBN-13: 9780374528447

Edition: N/A

Authors: Paul Muldoon, P. Muldoon

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"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…    
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Book details

List price: $21.00
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 4/3/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 496
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.50" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English

Paul Muldoon was born in Northern Ireland in 1951. He lives with his wife, the novelist Jean Hanff Korelitz, & his two children in New Jersey, & teaches at Princeton University. In 1999 he was elected Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford.

Authors' Note
The Electric Orchard
Wind and Tree
Blowing Eggs
Thrush
The Glad Eye
Hedges in Winter
Macha
The Waking Father
Dancers at the Moy
Identities
Clonfeacle
February
Kate Whiskey
Thinking of the Goldfish
Vespers
The Cure for Warts
Leaving an Island
The Radio Horse
Good Friday, 1971. Driving Westward
Seanchas
Behold the Lamb
Hedgehog
Lives of the Saints
Easter Island
The Indians on Alcatraz
Vampire
Elizabeth
The Kissing Seat
Grass Widow
Skeffington's Daughter
Cuckoo Corn
The Upriver Incident
The Lost Tribe
The Field Hospital
Party Piece
The Year of the Sloes, for Ishi
Lunch with Pancho Villa
The Centaurs
The Big House
Epona
Cass and Me
How to Play Championship Tennis
Cheesecake
Ned Skinner
Ma
Keen
Vaquero
Our Lady of Ardboe
Big Liz
The Ducking Stool
The Girls in the Poolroom
Boon
The Wood
At Master McGrath's Grave
Blemish
The Bearded Woman, by Ribera
The Merman
Paris
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
The Mixed Marriage
De Secretis Mulierum
Largesse
Cider
The Rucksack
At Martha's Deli
The Country Club
Bang
Duffy's Circus
Mules
Armageddon, Armageddon
Whim
October 1950
The Geography Lesson
The Weepies
Bran
Cuba
The Bishop
The Boundary Commission
Early Warning
Lull
I Remember Sir Alfred
Ireland
Anseo
Why Brownlee Left
Immrama
Promises, Promises
Truce
History
Palm Sunday
The Avenue
Something of a Departure
Holy Thursday
Making the Move
The Princess and the Pea
Grief
Come into My Parlour
The One Desire
Immram
Gathering Mushrooms
Trance
The Right Arm
The Mirror
The Hands
The Sightseers
My Father and I and Billy Two Rivers
Quoof
Big Foot
Beaver
Mary Farl Powers: Pink Spotted Torso
Edward Kienholz: The State Hospital
Glanders
The Salmon of Knowledge
From Strength to Strength
Cherish the Ladies
Yggdrasill
Mink
The Frog
A Trifle
from Last Poems
Sky-Woman
Kissing and Telling
The Unicorn Defends Himself
Blewits
The Destroying Angel
Aisling
The More a Man Has the More a Man Wants
Ontario
The Coney
My Grandfather's Wake
Gold
Profumo
Chinook
The Mist-Net
The Marriage of Strongbow and Aoife
Brock
The Wishbone
The Lass of Aughrim
Meeting the British
Crossing the Line
Bechbretha
Christo's
The Earthquake
The Fox
The Soap-Pig
The Toe-Tag
Gone
Paul Klee: They're Biting
Something Else
Sushi
7, Middagh Street
Wystan
Gypsy
Ben
Chester
Salvador
Carson
Louis
The Key
Tea
Capercaillies
Asra
The Panther
Cauliflowers
The Briefcase
Madoc: A Mystery
Ovid: Metamorphoses
Brazil
Oscar
Milkweed and Monarch
Twice
Incantata
The Sonogram
Footling
The Birth
Cesar Vallejo: Testimony
Cows
Yarrow
The Mudroom
The Point
Nightingales
Plovers
The Bangle
The Plot
Tract
Rainer Maria Rilke: The Unicorn
White Shoulders
Green Gown
Now, Now
Longbones
Lag
Symposium
Between Takes
Sleeve Notes
Hay
Apple Slump
The Train
Three Deer, Mount Rose, August 1995
Hopewell Haiku
Anonymous: Myself and Pangur
Rainer Maria Rilke: Black Cat
Paunch
Long Finish
The Throwback
They That Wash on Thursday
Blissom
The Little Black Book
Errata
Horses
A Journey to Cracow
Aftermath
Wire
Rune
Third Epistle to Timothy
A Half Door Near Cluny
Burma
The Hug
White
The Fridge
The Bangle (Slight Return)
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