The Penitent State

Paul Muldoon

Oxford University Press Academic UK

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Jerry Valen DeMarco

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Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Faber and Faber

Dominated by feminine presences, this collection includes new poems that celebrate the birth of the poet's daughter, and personal elegy for Mary Farl Powers. By the author of "Mules" and "Meeting the British".

Annals of Chile

Faber and Faber Ltd.

The Annals of Chile

Dominated by feminine presences, this collection includes new poems that celebrate the birth of the poet's daughter, and personal elegy for Mary Farl Powers. By the author of Mules and Meeting the British.

Gardners Books

Drawing on Paul Muldoon's eight major collections, "Poems 1968-1998" should allow readers old and new to take the full measure of this significant poet.

Poems 1968-1998

Faber&Faber

The four pieces that make up this work are taken from Muldoon's Oxford Clarendon Lectures of 1998. Together, they take the form of an A-Z, or abecedary of Irish literature, in which his imagination forges links between disparate aspects and individuals in the Irish literary landscape, ranging back and forth between modern and medieval. From Beckett and Bowen, through MacNeice, Swift and Yeats - and guided throughout by Joyce - To Ireland, I moves lightly through the long grass of Irish writing. The result is a provocative handbook for the literary traveller, who is treated to an astonishing display of scholarship and idiosyncratic inwardness from Irish literature over the course of a millennium.

To Ireland, I

Essays & Correspondence

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 draws on the vocabulary of entomological forensics. The last series of linked lyrics, meanwhile, takes as its 'subject' the urge to memorialize the scenes of fatal car accidents. The extravagant linkage of rot and the erotic is at the heart of not only the title-sequence but many of the round-songs that characterize Maggot and has led Angela Leighton, writing in the TLS, to see these new poems (on their earlier appearance in Plan B, an interim volume which included several of the poems in Maggot) as giving readers 'a thrilling, wild, fairground ride, with few let-ups for the squeamish.'

Maggot

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