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NPR Best Books of 2016
“[Selected Poems 1968-2014 is] a compact, powerful book, filled with catharses you didn’t know you needed . . . [Paul Muldoon] takes traditional verse forms―sonnets, sestinas, ballads, pantoums―and retools them, as if they were engine parts, for his own purposes.” ―Dwight Garner, The New York Times
“Paul Muldoon’s Selected Poems 1968-2014 demonstrates why he has long been regarded as one of the most significant poets of the past fifty years . . . Muldoon displays the full range of his voice, which can be whimsical, melancholy, pensive, angry or delight in wordplay.” ―Elizabeth Lund, The Washington Post
"[Selected Poems 1968-2014] reveals, amid Muldoon's kaleidoscopic variations, the axiom underlying all his poetry . . . no contemporary poetry gives such immediate proof that extravagant contrivance is perfectly compatible with powerful feeling." ―Christopher Spaide, Slate
"Muldoon has enfranchised a whole generation of poets, by freeing them into his own brand of linguistic euphoria. But what sets him apart from his imitators, and raises him above them, is his imaginative scope and daring . . . He is a fabulous poet." ―Stephen Romer, The Guardian
"Over the past 45 years, acclaimed Irish poet Muldoon has authored more than 30 books, most recently, One Thousand Things Worth Knowing (2015). During this time, Muldoon has perfected his characteristic sense of wry understatement, penchant for sly allusions, and affinity for elliptical structures. Where some poets resist closure, Muldoon’s work seems to inhabit a paradoxical timelessness: imbued with a sense of history, yet also persistently present, where even mundane events prove momentous, like the birth of a foal or a harmless encounter with a hedgehog (“the god / Under this crown of thorns”). Many of Muldoon’s poems can be read as such whimsical run-ins, situated amid rural farmland under the “soiled grey blanket of Irish rain,” populated as it is with foxes, frogs, and quail. But with his unique voice, Muldoon is also master of the poetic epic, long narratives that read like lyrical novellas. As a selection of Muldoon’s most popular work, this volume is sure to include fan favorites, and will also provide new readers with a wide-ranging introduction to one of the most prolific and appreciated poets of contemporary English literature." ―Diego Báez
"This impressive yet approachable selection . . . offers an excellent introduction to [Paul Muldoon's] relentlessly crafted work . . . Equal parts bar crawl and blessing, formal adventure and shaggy dog, Muldoon's work looks both backward and forward and finds new ways to rhyme them." ―Publisher's Weekly
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. Brand New. First Edition / Second Print (number line on copyright page 2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3). Hardback copy in grey cloth boards with gold gilt lettering to spine. Unclipped dustjacket in new removable protective clear sleeve. 228pp. (49/5). Seller Inventory # ABE-1602767670620
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. Fine in fine wrapper. First printing. A selection of the great poet's work. Signed by the author. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 1474
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. This Signed first printing, First Edition hardback is in 'New' condition and was published by Faber in London in 2016. The book was printed in by Martins the Printers in Berwick-upon-Tweed in England. Paul Muldoon has signed the title page in black ink. The book has never been read and both book and dust-jacket are in 'New' condition. The book is bound in grey-coloured stuff boards; with matching colour endpapers. Spine titles are in gilt. The book has 228 numbered pages. The size of the book in inches is 8.8 x 5.8 and it weighs 0.44 kg. As with all our sales of books within the UK, we only ever charge a flat standard delivery cost of £3.35. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 003438
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