WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR POETRY 2003 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, where 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, an 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, flim-flammers, 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.
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