The Last Thesaurus - Softcover

Muldoon, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571175805 ISBN 13: 9780571175802

Publisher: Faber and Faber, 1996

Synopsis

A poem set on a dinosaur-ridden planet agog with odd life-forms and minor earthquakes. Bert and Brunhilde Brontosaurus are engaged in a close encounter with Tyrannosaurus Rex, and it hinges on the intervention of a curious creature which acts like a walking thesaurus.

'This is a book to dazzle and bewitch the young . . . they will discover at an intuitive level all the glory, colour and power of words . . . Our language is well served by this book.' Times Educational Supplement

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About the Author

Paul Muldoon was born in County Armagh in 1951. He read English at Queen's University, Belfast, and published his first collection of poems, New Weather, in 1973. He is the author of ten books of poetry, including Moy Sand and Gravel (2002), for which he received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and Horse Latitudes (2006). Since 1987 he has lived in the United States, where he is the Howard G. B. Clark Professor in the Humanities at Princeton University. From 1999 to 2004 he was Professor of Poetry at Oxford University. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Paul Muldoon was given an American Academy of Arts and Letters award in 1996. Other recent awards include the 1994 T. S. Eliot Prize, the 1997 Irish Times Poetry Prize, and the 2003 Griffin Prize.

Edition details

• Publisher: Faber and Faber
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0571175805
• ISBN 13: 9780571175802
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 64