Why Brownlee Left (Signed First Edition)

MULDOON, Paul

ISBN 10: 0916390136 / ISBN 13: 9780916390136

Published by Wake Forest University Press, Winston-Salem, NC, 1981

About this Item

First U.S. edition and first printing. Softcover. 48 pages. The third book of poems from this important Irish poet. A clean very near fine copy in wrappers in a very near fine copy in dust jacket and with a laid in promotional card. Signed and inscribed by Muldoon to artist Henry Pearson in the year of publication. A very nice copy.

Seller Inventory # 190301

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Why Brownlee Left (Signed First Edition)
• Publisher: Wake Forest University Press, Winston-Salem, NC
• Publication Date: 1981
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0916390136
• ISBN 13: 9780916390136
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Poetry

About this title

Synopsis

Why Brownlee Left, a Poetry Book Society Choice and winner of the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, confirmed Paul Muldoon's reputation as the most inventive voice of his generation when it was first published in 1980. The key figure in the poet's third collection is the enigmatic Brownlee; strong-willed and wayward, past shaky, future hazy, present whereabouts uncertain. There are many new departures here, but Why Brownlee Left also explores with increasing authority themes already apparent in New Weather (1973) and Mules (1977). It culminates in a retelling of 'Immram Mael Duin', a strange voyage of self-discovery by the poet's legendary ancestor.

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.