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The Annals of Chile

Paul Muldoon

Winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize, The Annals of Chile confirms Paul Muldoon's stature as one of the most talented poets of his generation. The heart of the book is the long poem "Yarrow," in which 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 bought swifly and vividly to life by his fantastical imagination. The collection also contains a group of shorter poems, including "The Birth," a delicate lyric which celebrates the arrival of a baby girl; "Incantata," a deeply felt elegy to a former lover; a Muldoon's inspired adaptation of an episode from Ovid's Metamorphoses.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl
  • Publish Date: Sep 30th, 1995
  • Pages: 191
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.68in - 5.62in - 0.50in - 0.57lb
  • EAN: 9780374524562
  • Categories: European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

About the Author

Muldoon, Paul: - Paul Muldoon was born in County Armagh in 1951. He now lives in New York. A former radio and television producer for the BBC in Belfast, he has taught at Princeton University for thirty years. He is the author of over a dozen previous collections of poetry, including Moy Sand and Gravel, for which he won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize; Selected Poems 1968-2014; and, recently, Frolic and Detour.

Praise for this book

"Paul Muldoon is one of the most inventive and ambitious poets working today. The Annals of Chile is his best book yet." --Lawrence Norfolk, Times Literary Supplement