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Maggot Hardcover – 7 Oct. 2010

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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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128 pages
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English
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Faber & Faber
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7 Oct. 2010
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14.5 x 1.5 x 22.2 cm
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0571269257
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978-0571269259
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Publisher : Faber & Faber; Main edition (7 Oct. 2010)
Language : English
Hardcover : 128 pages
ISBN-10 : 0571269257
ISBN-13 : 978-0571269259
Dimensions : 14.5 x 1.5 x 22.2 cm

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Maggot, by Paul Muldoon - 'The most significant English-language poet born since the Second World War.' (TLS)

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Paul Muldoon is the author of thirteen collections of poetry, including Moy Sand and Gravel, for which he received the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and the most recent, Frolic and Detour (2019). His other awards include the 1994 T. S. Eliot Prize, the 2003 Griffin Prize, the 2015 Pigott Prize, and the 2017 Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. Born in County Armagh in 1951, he has lived since 1987 in the United States, where he is the Howard G. B. Clark Professor in the Humanities at Princeton University.

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Important book from one of the leading poets writing in English

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I saw a discussion of this poet on an on-line course. Very interesting use of the sonnet form for a connected series of poems.

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