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 ...
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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.'
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Fine in very good dust jacket. Signed by author. Signed by Pulitzer Prize Winning Poet and Author Paul Muldoon, in person. 128 p. Audience: General/trade. Fine, as New, tight as a drum, unread copy in a Very Good/Near Fine dust jacket the dust jacket would be Fine as New; but is downgraded to the very good/near fine range due to several scratches on the back section of the dust jacket which are invisible, but can be felt. U.K. First Edition-First Printing with a full number line ending with a 1. Signed, signature only, on the Title page, by Multi Award Winning Author and Poet Paul Muldoon, in person, during his Poet/Author event in New York City on January 14, 2015. A photo of Paul during the event, and an event announcement will be included. "Maggot" is a collection of poems, in which Paul Muldoon reminds the reader that he is a traditional Poet who is steadfastly at odds with tradition. Paul finds unexpected ways of thinking and feeling about what it means to come to terms with the early twenty-first century. The center piece of "Maggot" is an outlandish meditation on a failed poem that draws on the entomological forensics. Rest assured, this collectible copy is well protected in an archival Mylar cover; and will be very carefully packaged with protective material; and will be shipped in a new box. We always treat all of our books, and book buyers with the utmost respect.