Dislocations - The Selected Innovative Poems of Paul Muldoon (Hardcover)

Roger Rosenblatt, writing in the New York Times in 2016, described Paul Muldoon as `one of the great poets of the past hundred years, who can be everything in his poems - word-playful, lyrical, hilarious, melancholy. And angry. Only Yeats before him could write with such measured fury.' This is a selection (chosen by poet John Kinsella) of some of the more linguistically innovative and overtly 'experimental' poems from Muldoon's extensive and verbally rich oeuvre. Muldoon is always innovative and `electric', but the focus in this selection is on linguistic `departures' in his own practice. Both inside and outside the avant-garde, Muldoon is ultimately a maverick whose unique voice is nonetheless steeped in the politics of a bilingual Irish poetics, with a forensic dissection of `New World'-`Old World' (false) verbal dynamics. We see and hear his poems in juxtaposition and proximity, in terms of those elements of his work that are possibly less appreciated and discussed by those who cast him as a lyrical purist who 'plays' with language. Muldoon's is a poetry that is compelled, propelled and is 'political' in complex arrays, and isn't about `gameplay' per se, but a politics of language. Muldoon has a driving purpose in all he writes, and the reader and listener may begin to get a sense of the possibilities of this purpose through engaging with this book.

General

Imprint:	Liverpool University Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	May 2019
Editors:	John Kinsella
Authors:	Paul Muldoon
Dimensions:	239 x 163 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	295
ISBN-13:	978-1-78694-224-1
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Poetry texts & anthologies > General Promotions
LSN:	1-78694-224-0
Barcode:	9781786942241

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