Selected Poems 1968-2014 - Softcover

Muldoon, Oxford Professor Of Poetry And Howard G B Clark Professor In The Humanities Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0374537305 ISBN 13: 9780374537302

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017

Synopsis

"The most significant English-Language poet born since the second world war." --The Times Literary Supplement

Selected Poems 1968-2014 offers forty-six years of work drawn from twelve individual collections by a poet who "began as a prodigy and has gone on to become a virtuoso" (Michael Hofmann). Hailed by Seamus Heaney as "one of the era's true originals," Paul Muldoon seems determined to escape definition, yet this volume, compiled by the poet himself, serves as an indispensable introduction to his trademark combination of intellectual hijinks and emotional honesty. Among his many honors are the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the Shakespeare Prize "for contributions from English-speaking Europe to the European inheritance."

"Among contemporaries, Paul Muldoon, one of the great poets of the past hundred years, who can be everything in his poems--word-playful, lyrical, hilarious, melancholy. And angry. Only Yeats before him could write with such measured fury." --Roger Rosenblatt, The New York Times

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About the Author

Paul Muldoon was born in County Armagh in 1951. He now lives in New York. A former radio and television producer for the BBC in Belfast, he has taught at Princeton University for more than thirty years. He is the author of more than a dozen previous collections of poetry, including Moy Sand and Gravel, for which he won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize; Selected Poems 1968-2014; and, Howdie-Skelp.

Edition details

• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0374537305
• ISBN 13: 9780374537302
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240