Poems 1968-1998

Title: Poems 1968-1998
Author: Paul Muldoon
ISBN: 9780374125431
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2001
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Condition: Used: Very Good


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"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.