Paul Muldoon Poems 1968 - 1998

By Paul Muldoon

Book Overview

Yet my eye is drawn once again, Almost against its wishes, To the figure in the shadows, Willowy, and clean-shaven, As if he simply wandered in Between mending that fuse And washing the breakfast dishes. --from "The Bearded Woman, by Ribera" 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 and recreating the business of poetry. The thirty-year effort of Muldoon's career thus far, is altogether like a fascinatingly mutable climate in which each freshening period brings---as his first collection was predictively titled---new weather.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374125430
• ISBN13: 9780374125431
• Release Date: April 2001
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 479 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.3" x 6.0"