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The Word on the Street
Paul Muldoon
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Description for The Word on the Street
Hardback. Offers the essential meaning of the term 'lyric' - a short poem sung to the accompaniment of a musical instrument. This title includes the classic themes of song: lost love, lost wars. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 159 x 13. Weight in Grams: 192.
In this new collection Paul Muldoon goes back to the essential meaning of the term 'lyric' -a short poem sung to the accompaniment of a musical instrument. These words are written for music, assuredly, with half an ear to Yeats's ballad-singing porter drinkers and half to Cole Porter-and indeed, many of them double as rock songs, performed by the Wayside Shrines, the Princeton-based music collective of which Muldoon is a member. Their themes are the classic themes of song: lost love, lost wars, Charlton Heston, barbed wire, pole dancers, cellulite, Hegel, ... Read more
In this new collection Paul Muldoon goes back to the essential meaning of the term 'lyric' -a short poem sung to the accompaniment of a musical instrument. These words are written for music, assuredly, with half an ear to Yeats's ballad-singing porter drinkers and half to Cole Porter-and indeed, many of them double as rock songs, performed by the Wayside Shrines, the Princeton-based music collective of which Muldoon is a member. Their themes are the classic themes of song: lost love, lost wars, Charlton Heston, barbed wire, pole dancers, cellulite, Hegel, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
New
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571299065
SKU
9780571299065
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About Paul Muldoon
Acclaimed for his many poetry collections, from New Weather (1973) to Maggot (2010), and winner of numerous awards including the Pulitzer and T.S. Eliot Prizes, Paul Muldoon is Howard G.B. Clark Professor and Founding Chair of the Lewis Center for the Arts, Princeton University. He also writes lyrics for the music collective, Wayside Shrines.
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