Background
Muldoon, Paul B. was born in 1951 in Portadown, Northern Ireland. Arrived in United States, 1987.
(A poem in which the neurotic Narcissus Batt, Esq, is up l...)
A poem in which the neurotic Narcissus Batt, Esq, is up late one night in his Gothic manor house, jotting down his night-thoughts, which take the form of various beasts who reveal themselves alphabetically.
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( Subtitled A Mystery, this verse narrative collects seve...)
Subtitled A Mystery, this verse narrative collects several poems concerning the so-called "Pantisocracy" (meaning a state ruled equally by all), a utopian scheme devised and later abandoned by the 18th-century poet-philosophers Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey. What if they had indeed set up such an ideal community on the banks of the Susquehanna? That is the crux of this book's long and fascinating title poem, which depicts events via the mind's eye of one of Southey's reputed descendants. The poems in this book also focus more directly on the legend of Madoc himself, the Welsh prince who some believe came to America 300 years before Columbus and sired a line of Welsh-speaking Indians.
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(At the heart of a collection of evocative poems is the lo...)
At the heart of a collection of evocative poems is the long poem ""Yarrow,"" conjuring up the 1960s, presented with a group of shorter poems including ""The Birth,"" ""Incantata,"" and an adaptation of an episode of Ovid's Metamorphoses.
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(Paul Muldoon, one of the most important poets of his gene...)
Paul Muldoon, one of the most important poets of his generation, has produced a firework display of scholarship, wit, and intrigue in this idiosyncratic wander through the alphabet of Irish literature. From Beckett and Bowen, through Joyce, MacNeice, Swift, and Yeats, To Ireland, I is a provocative re-reading of the major Irish authors, with a particular emphasis on the continuity of the tradition.
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(The Faber Book of Beasts is a collection of many of the b...)
The Faber Book of Beasts is a collection of many of the best poems in English about the creatures who share our planet. The animal kingdom has prompted some of the liveliest and most enjoyable writing by poets, from Homer to our contemporaries. Among the creatures gathered here, tame or wild; common or exotic, are mammals, reptiles, birds, insects, and others perhaps more fanciful than real. A zoologist's delight. There is, too, a moral or philosophical purpose. As Paul Muldoon says in his introduction: 'We are most human in the presence of animals.' And it is just this sense of how our humanity is illuminated by the contemplation of bestial life that he has set out to celebrate. The results are wonderfully rich and thought-provoking.
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(The Annals of Chile, Paul Muldoon's first book of new poe...)
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.
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('I started the sonnet sequence "Horse Latitudes" as the U...)
'I started the sonnet sequence "Horse Latitudes" as the U.S. embarked on its foray into Iraq. The poems have to do with a series of battles (all beginning with the letter 'B' as if to suggest a 'missing' Baghdad) in which horses or mules played a major role. Intercut with those battle-scenes are accounts of a 'battle' with cancer by a former lover, here named Carlotta, and a commentary on the agenda of what may only be described as the Bush 'regime'. The title poem was written for "Something beginning with P: New Poems from Irish Poets" (O'Brien Press) and was recently translated into Chinese in celebration of a visit to Shanghai and Beijing' - Paul Muldoon.
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( The title of Horse Latitudes, Paul Muldoon's tenth coll...)
The title of Horse Latitudes, Paul Muldoon's tenth collection of poetry, refers to those areas thirty degrees north and south of the equator where sailing ships tend to be becalmed, where stasis (if not stagnation) is the order of the day. From Bosworth Field to Beijing, the Boyne to Bull Run, from a series of text messages to the nineteenth-century Irish poet Thomas Moore to an elegy for Warren Zevon, and from post-Agreement Ireland to George W. Bush's America, this book presents us with fields of battle and fields of debate, in which we often seem to have come to a standstill but in which language that has been debased may yet be restruck and made current to our predicament. Horse Latitudes is a triumphant collection by one of the most esteemed poets of our time.
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( This cahier presents new work by the celebrated Irish p...)
This cahier presents new work by the celebrated Irish poet Paul Muldoon. After a preface in which the poet explains what for him is the importance of translating, there follow four original works: ‘The Windshield’, ‘Balls’ (a five-sonnet sequence), ‘Quail’, and the title series of poems, ‘When the Pie Was Opened’. Interspersed with these are the poet’s translations: from Latin, from Anglo-Saxon, from Medieval Welsh, from Greek, and from Irish. The cahier is completed by drawings and an etching by the Sicilian artist Lanfranco Quadrio.
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('These poems delight in a wily, mischievous, nonchalant n...)
'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
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( Paul Muldoon's ninth collection of poems, his first sin...)
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.
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Muldoon, Paul B. was born in 1951 in Portadown, Northern Ireland. Arrived in United States, 1987.
Bachelor in English Language and Literature, Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 1973.
Producer arts programs radio British Broadcasting Corporation Northern Ireland, 1973-1978, senior producer arts programs radio, 1978-1985, television producer, 1985-1986. Judith E. Wilson visiting fellow Cambridge University, 1986-1987. Creative writing fellow University East Anglia, 1987.
Roberta Holloway lecturer University California, Berkeley, 1989. Director creative writing program Princeton University, 1993—2002, lecturer New Jersey, since 1990, Howard Great Britain Clark '21 University Professor humanities and creative writing, since 1998. Poetry editor New Yorker, since 2007.
Part-time teacher writing division Columbia University School of Arts, 1987—1988. Part-time teacher creative writing progressive Princeton University, 1987—1988. Visiting professor University Massachusetts, Amherst, 1989—1990.
Professor poetry University Oxford, 1999—2004. Founding chair Lewis Center for Arts, since 2006.
( Paul Muldoon's ninth collection of poems, his first sin...)
( Subtitled A Mystery, this verse narrative collects seve...)
('These poems delight in a wily, mischievous, nonchalant n...)
( The title of Horse Latitudes, Paul Muldoon's tenth coll...)
(At the heart of a collection of evocative poems is the lo...)
(A poem in which the neurotic Narcissus Batt, Esq, is up l...)
(Paul Muldoon, one of the most important poets of his gene...)
(The Annals of Chile, Paul Muldoon's first book of new poe...)
(Sixty Instant Messages to Tom Moore is a handsewn fine le...)
(The Faber Book of Beasts is a collection of many of the b...)
(Why Brownlee Left, Paul Muldoon's third collection, was p...)
( This cahier presents new work by the celebrated Irish p...)
('I started the sonnet sequence "Horse Latitudes" as the U...)
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Fellow: Royal Society Literature. Member: American Academy of Arts and Letters, American Academy Arts and Letters, American Academy Arts and Sciences.
Married Jean Hanff Korelitz. 2 children.