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Description for Horse Latitudes
Refers to the area 30 degrees north and south of the equator in which sailing ships tend to be becalmed, in which stasis is the order of the day, and where sailors would throw horses overboard to lighten the load and conserve food and water. This collection weaves between popular song and riddle, between haiku and narrative. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 145 x 14. Weight in Grams: 286.
Paul Muldoon's new collection opens with a sonnet sequence, 'Horse Latitudes', written as the U.S. embarked on its foray into Iraq. Of their recent pamphlet publication, he remarked that 'the poems have to do with a series of historical battles (all beginning with the letter "B" as if to suggest a missing Baghdad), from post-Agreement Ireland to George W. Bush's America, in which horses or mules played a major role. Intercut with these battle-scenes are accounts of a battle with cancer by a former lover, here named Carlotta, and a commentary on the agenda of what may only be described ... Read more
Paul Muldoon's new collection opens with a sonnet sequence, 'Horse Latitudes', written as the U.S. embarked on its foray into Iraq. Of their recent pamphlet publication, he remarked that 'the poems have to do with a series of historical battles (all beginning with the letter "B" as if to suggest a missing Baghdad), from post-Agreement Ireland to George W. Bush's America, in which horses or mules played a major role. Intercut with these battle-scenes are accounts of a battle with cancer by a former lover, here named Carlotta, and a commentary on the agenda of what may only be described ... Read more
Product Details
Number of pages
128
Publisher
Faber & Faber United Kingdom
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571232345
SKU
9780571232345
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About Paul Muldoon
Paul Muldoon was born in 1951 in County Armagh, Northern Ireland, and educated at the Queen's University of Belfast. Since 1987 he has lived in the U.S.A., where he teaches at Princeton University. Between 1999 and 2004 he was Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford. Paul Muldoon's most recent collections are Hay (1998), Poems 1969-1998 (2001), and Moy ... Read more
Reviews for Horse Latitudes
"'The most significant English-language poet born since the Second World War.' Times Literary Supplement"