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Maggot
Paul Muldoon
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Description for Maggot
Paperback. A poetic sequence that take as its 'subject' the urge to memorialize the scenes of fatal car accidents. Num Pages: 136 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 132 x 11. Weight in Grams: 167.
In his eleventh full-length collection, Paul Muldoon reminds us that he is a traditional poet who is steadfastly at odds with tradition. If the poetic sequence is the main mode of Maggot, it certainly isn't your father's poetic sequence. Taking as a starting point W. B. Yeats's remark that the only fit topics for a serious mood are 'sex and the dead', Muldoon finds unexpected ways of thinking and feeling about what it means to come to terms with the early twenty-first century. It's no accident that the centerpiece of Maggot is an outlandish meditation on a failed poem that ... Read more
In his eleventh full-length collection, Paul Muldoon reminds us that he is a traditional poet who is steadfastly at odds with tradition. If the poetic sequence is the main mode of Maggot, it certainly isn't your father's poetic sequence. Taking as a starting point W. B. Yeats's remark that the only fit topics for a serious mood are 'sex and the dead', Muldoon finds unexpected ways of thinking and feeling about what it means to come to terms with the early twenty-first century. It's no accident that the centerpiece of Maggot is an outlandish meditation on a failed poem that ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Number of pages
136
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Weight
166g
Number of Pages
136
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571269266
SKU
V9780571269266
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About Paul Muldoon
Paul Muldoon was born in County Armagh in 1951. He read English at Queen's University, Belfast, and published his first collection of poems, New Weather, in 1973. He is the author of ten books of poetry, including Moy Sand and Gravel (2002), for which he received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and Horse Latitudes (2006). Since 1987 he has lived ... Read more
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