Reading Paul Muldoon

Author : Paul Muldoon
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-13
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780571316069

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One Thousand Things Worth Knowing by Paul Muldoon Pdf

Paul Muldoon's new book, his twelfth collection of poems, is wide-ranging in its subject matter yet is everywhere concerned with watchfulness. Heedful, hard won, head-turning, heartfelt, these poems attempt to bring scrutiny to bear on everything, including scrutiny itself. One Thousand Things Worth Knowing confirms Nick Laird's assessment, in the New York Review of Books, that Paul Muldoon is 'the most formally ambitious and technically innovative of modern poets, [who] writes poems like no one else.'

Author : Paul Muldoon
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-16
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780374602963

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Howdie-Skelp by Paul Muldoon Pdf

The Pulitzer Prize–winning poet delivers a sharp wake-up call with his fourteenth collection. A “howdie-skelp” is the slap in the face a midwife gives a newborn. It’s a wake-up call. A call to action. The poems in Howdie-Skelp, Paul Muldoon’s new collection, include a nightmarish remake of The Waste Land, an elegy for his fellow Northern Irish poet Ciaran Carson, a heroic crown of sonnets that responds to the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, a translation from the ninth-century Irish, and a Yeatsian sequence of ekphrastic poems that call into question the very idea of an “affront” to good taste. Muldoon is a poet who continues not only to capture but to command our attention.

Author : Clair Wills
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Muldoon, Paul
ISBN : UOM:39015048766367

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Reading Paul Muldoon by Clair Wills Pdf

Author : Paul Muldoon
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-07
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780571269648

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Maggot by Paul Muldoon Pdf

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.'

Author : Paul Muldoon
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-21
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780571263783

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The End of the Poem by Paul Muldoon Pdf

The End of the Poem contains the fifteen lectures delivered by Paul Muldoon as Oxford Professor of Poetry, from 1999 to 2004. Rather than individual and discrete performances, these lectures form a dazzling set of variations around the sustained theme of 'the end of the poem'. Each lecture explores a different sense of an ending: whether a poem can ever be a free-standing structure, read and written in isolation from other poems; whether a poem's line-endings are forms of closure (and where this might leave the poem in prose); whether the poem is completed only with the reader's act of understanding; whether revision brings a poem nearer to its ideal ending (when does a poet know when a poem has come to an end?); what is the right true end of poetry, and is the end of the poem the beginning of criticism, including an Arnoldian 'criticism of life'?

Author : Paul Muldoon
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010-12-09
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780571263868

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Hay by Paul Muldoon Pdf

Paul Muldoon's collection Hay refines, and re-defines, a lyrical strain in which an ostensible lightness of touch still has the strength to bear the weightiest subject matter. At once conventional and cutting edge, beautiful and bleak, Hay is a book that demonstrates fully the range of Muldoon's poetic intelligence and imagination.

Author : Paul Muldoon
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-02
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781466879805

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Moy Sand and Gravel by Paul Muldoon Pdf

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. Moy Sand and Gravel is the winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

Author : Paul Muldoon
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780374721435

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Frolic and Detour by Paul Muldoon Pdf

A new collection from the Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Though Frolic and Detour is Paul Muldoon’s thirteenth collection, it shows all the energy and ambition we might generally associate with a first book. Here, the poet brings his characteristic humor and humanity to the chickadee, the house wren, the deaths of Leonard Cohen and C. K. Williams, the Irish Rising, the Great War, and how “a streak of ragwort / may yet shine / as an off-the-record / remark becomes the party line.” Frolic and Detour reminds us that the sidelong glance is the sweetest, the tangential approach the most telling, and shows us why Paul Muldoon was described by Nick Laird, writing in The New York Review of Books, as “the most formally ambitious and technically innovative of modern poets, [who] writes poems like no one else.”

Author : Paul Muldoon
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 75 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2010-12-09
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780571263820

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Quoof by Paul Muldoon Pdf

'These poems delight in a wily, mischievous, nonchalant negotiation between the affections and attachments of Muldoon's own childhood, family and place, and the ironic discriminations of a cool literary sensibility and historical awareness.' Times Literary Supplement

Author : Jefferson Holdridge
Publisher : The Liffey Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : IND:30000115536777

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The Poetry of Paul Muldoon by Jefferson Holdridge Pdf

"The Poetry of Paul Muldoon introduces the student and general reader to the critical discussion surrounding Muldoon's oeuvre, as well as to his major themes. It examines the poet's meditations on culture and nature, human and animal, speculations on the act of perception, figures fragmented by the Troubles, and philosophical considerations of colonisation. It then discusses what rank among the most beautiful and intricate elegies of our time. For Muldoon, art's complicity in suffering is a political, self-indicting question, which his best poems endeavour to answer. If sometimes this Pulitzer Prize winner insists that art has a positive role to play, at other times he fears that it merely feeds off the carnage. This critical book shows how, for Muldoon, art should not merely repeat the devastation of the world - although he is afraid that it does, and engages in bitter moral despair that places his work among the very best any contemporary poet has written. The Poetry of Paul Muldoon unearths difficult questions of form with a metaphysical significance that is suitable to our times."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Paul Muldoon
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 57 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010-12-09
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780571263813

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Why Brownlee Left by Paul Muldoon Pdf

Why Brownlee Left, Paul Muldoon's third collection, was published in 1980.

Author : Paul Muldoon
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-04
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780571263790

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New Weather by Paul Muldoon Pdf

New Weather was Paul Muldoon's first book of poems. When it appeared in 1973, Seamus Heaney described its author as 'unusually gifted, endowed with an individual sense of rhythm, a natural and copious vocabulary, a technical accomplishment and an intellectual boldness that mark him as the most promising poet to appear in Ireland for years.' While the promise has been amply fulfilled, New Weather gives the poet's many, more recent admirers the opportunity to see what a versatile and substantial artist he was from the outset.

Author : Fran Brearton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:49015003433910

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Reading Michael Longley by Fran Brearton Pdf

This new study is the first full-length assessment of Michael Longley's work. It looks at all the major collections he has published over the past 40 years, and at the extraordinary growth of his reputation and influence. Fran Brearton's reading of Longley's work relates the development of his poetry to the recent literary and political history of Northern Ireland. She offers a broadly chronological reading of Longley's work from the 1960s to the present day, tracing thematic continuities across his collections.

Author : Paul McCartney,Paul Muldoon
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
Page : 735 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-07
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781324094685

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The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present by Paul McCartney,Paul Muldoon Pdf

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A Washington Post Notable Book Excerpted in The New Yorker A work of unparalleled candor and splendorous beauty, The Lyrics celebrates the creative life and the musical genius of Paul McCartney through his most meaningful songs. Finally in paperback and featuring seven new song commentaries, the #1 New York Times bestseller celebrates the creative life and unparalleled musical genius of Paul McCartney. Spanning sixty-four years—from his early days in Liverpool, through the historic decade of The Beatles, to Wings and his solo career—Paul McCartney’s The Lyrics revolutionized the way artists write about music. An unprecedented “triumph” (Times UK), this handsomely designed volume pairs the definitive texts of over 160 songs with first-person commentaries on McCartney’s life, revealing the diverse circumstances in which songs were written; how they ultimately came to be; and the remarkable, yet often delightfully ordinary, people and places that inspired them. The Lyrics also includes: · A personal foreword by McCartney · An unprecedented range of songs, from beloved standards like “Band on the Run” to new additions “Day Tripper” and “Magical Mystery Tour” · Over 160 images from McCartney’s own archives Edited and introduced by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon, The Lyrics is the definitive literary and visual record of one of the greatest songwriters of all time.

Author : Nicholson Baker
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781416572442

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The Anthologist by Nicholson Baker Pdf

"The Anthologist" captures all the warmth, wit, and extraordinary prose stylethat have made Baker--a National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author--anAmerican master.