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Moy sand and gravel
by Paul Muldoon
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15 editions published between 2002 and 2008 in English and held by 1,237 libraries worldwide Paul Muldoon's ninth collection of poems, his first since Hay (1998), finds him working a rich vein that extends from the rivery, apple-heavy County Armagh of the 1950s, in which he was brought up, to suburban New Jersey, on the banks of a canal dug by Irish navvies, where he now lives. Grounded, glistening, as gritty as they are graceful, these poems seem capable of taking in almost anything, and anybody, be it a Tuareg glimpsed on the Irish border, Bessie Smith, Marilyn Monroe, Queen Elizabeth I, a hunted hare, William Tell, William Butler Yeats, Sitting Bull, Ted Hughes, an otter, a fox, Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Joscelyne, un unearthed pit pony, a loaf of bread, an outhouse, a killdeer, Oscar Wilde, or a flock of redknots. At the heart of the book is an elegy for a miscarried child, and that elegiac tone predominates, particularly in the elegant remaking of Yeats's "A Prayer for My Daughter" with which the book concludes, where a welter of traffic signs and slogans, along with the spirits of admen, hardware storekeepers, flimflammers, fixers, and other forebears, are borne along by a hurricane-swollen canal, and private grief coincides with some of the gravest matter of our age.
Poems, 1968-1998
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10 editions published between 2001 and 2002 in English and held by 911 libraries worldwide "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.
Horse latitudes
by Paul Muldoon
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18 editions published between 2006 and 2007 in English and held by 774 libraries worldwide
Hay
by Paul Muldoon
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14 editions published between 1998 and 2008 in English and held by 598 libraries worldwide An anthology of poems by an Irish-American writer. In Horses, he writes: "A sky. A field. A hedge flagrant with gorse. / I'm trying to remember, as best as I can, / if I'm a man dreaming I'm a plowhorse / or a great plowhorse dreaming I'm a man."
The end of the poem
by Paul Muldoon
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7 editions published between 2006 and 2007 in English and held by 596 libraries worldwide
The Faber book of contemporary Irish poetry
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9 editions published between 1986 and 1999 in English and held by 561 libraries worldwide
The annals of Chile
by Paul Muldoon
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14 editions published between 1994 and 1999 in English and held by 547 libraries worldwide The Annals of Chile, Paul Muldoon's first book of new poetry since the acclaimed Madoc: A Mystery (1991), confirms the widely held view that he is the most talented poet of his generation. The heart of the book is the long poem "Yarrow", in which all Muldoon's powers of insight and wordplay and surprising association are on exuberant display. Evoking the 1960s, the poet conjures up a boundless historical present peopled at once by Davy Crockett and Tristan Tzara and Wild Bill Hickok, by Maud Gonne and Michael Jackson, all brought swiftly and vividly to life by his fantastical imagination. The book also contains a group of shorter poems, including "The Birth", a delicate lyric which celebrates the arrival of a baby daughter; "Incantata", a powerful elegy to a former lover; and Muldoon's inspired adaptation of an episode from Ovid's Metamorphoses. Art, Muldoon writes, "builds from pain, from misery, from a deep-seated hurt / a monument to the human heart"; and here, out of strong emotion, in memorable language, Muldoon has once again fashioned rich and vital poetry.
Madoc : a mystery
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12 editions published between 1990 and 1999 in English and Undetermined and held by 467 libraries worldwide
Quoof
by Paul Muldoon
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16 editions published between 1983 and 2008 in English and Undetermined and held by 452 libraries worldwide The Poets on Screen collection contains clips of poets reading their own and other poets' work.
The best American poetry, 2005
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2 editions published in 2005 in English and held by 436 libraries worldwide This eagerly awaited volume in the celebrated Best American Poetry series reflects the latest developments and represents the last word in poetry today. Paul Muldoon, the distinguished poet and international literary eminence, has selected -- from a pool of several thousand published candidates -- the top seventy-five poems of the year. "The all-consuming interests of American poetry are the all-consuming interests of poetry all over," writes Muldoon in his incisive introduction to the volume. The Best American Poetry 2005 features a superb company of artists ranging from established masters of the craft, such as John Ashbery, Adrienne Rich, and Charles Wright, to rising stars like Kay Ryan, Tony Hoagland, and Beth Ann Fennelly. With insightful comments from the poets elucidating their work, and series editor David Lehman's perspicacious foreword addressing the state of the art, The Best American Poetry 2005 is indispensable for every poetry enthusiast.
Why Brownlee left
by Paul Muldoon
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19 editions published between 1980 and 2008 in English and Undetermined and held by 429 libraries worldwide The Poets on Screen collection contains clips of poets reading their own and other poets' work.
To Ireland, I
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13 editions published between 2000 and 2008 in English and held by 425 libraries worldwide
Meeting the British
by Paul Muldoon
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18 editions published between 1987 and 2008 in 3 languages and held by 394 libraries worldwide The Poets on Screen collection contains clips of poets reading their own and other poets' work.
The essential Byron
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6 editions published between 1988 and 1993 in English and held by 345 libraries worldwide Selected readings from Byron, plus two poems by Paul Muldoon.
Mules
by Paul Muldoon
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18 editions published between 1977 and 2008 in English and Undetermined and held by 344 libraries worldwide The Poets on Screen collection contains clips of poets reading their own and other poets' work.
Maggot : poems
by Paul Muldoon
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2 editions published in 2010 in English and held by 344 libraries worldwide
Selected poems, 1968-1986
by Paul Muldoon
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5 editions published between 1987 and 1999 in English and held by 288 libraries worldwide
The Astrakhan cloak
by Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill
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7 editions published between 1992 and 1999 in English and held by 275 libraries worldwide
Shining brow
by Daron Hagen
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12 editions published between 1991 and 2009 in English and held by 256 libraries worldwide
Bandanna : an opera in two acts and a prologue
by Daron Hagen
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9 editions published between 1999 and 2008 in English and German and held by 243 libraries worldwide more
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American poetry Animals Arnold, Matthew,--1822-1888 Art appreciation Bridges, Robert,--1844-1930 Byron, George Gordon Byron,--Baron,--1788-1824 Collections Criticism, interpretation, etc. Drama English literature--Irish authors English poetry English poetry--Irish authors Fairy tales Frost, Robert,--1874-1963 Heaney, Seamus,--1939- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) Intellectual life Ireland Ireland--Dingle Peninsula Irish Irish literature Irish poetry Irish Republican Army Literature Muldoon, Paul Musical settings Nevada--Las Vegas Ní Dhomhnaill, Nuala,--1952- Northern Ireland Operas Operas--Librettos Operas--Vocal scores with piano Photography Pictorial works Poetry Poetry Poetry, Modern Poets, English Poets, Irish Quartets (Flute, violin, viola, violoncello) Sidney, Philip,--Sir,--1554-1586 Song cycles Songs (High voice) with instrumental ensemble Songs (High voice) with piano Songs (Medium voice) with piano Tales Translations Undercover operations Violin and violoncello music Wright, Frank Lloyd,--1867-1959
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