Paul Muldoon Poems 1968 - 1998

Paul Muldoon Poems 1968 - 1998 by Muldoon, Paul. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780374125431.

Yet my eye is drawn once again, Almost against its wishes, To the figure in the shadows, Willowy, and clean-shaven, As if he simply wandered in Between mending that fuse And washing the breakfast dishes. --from "The Bearded Woman, by Ribera" Sven Birkerts has said, "It is not usual for a poet of Muldoons years to have an oeuvre disclosing significant shifts and evolutions. But Muldoon, more than most, is an artist in high flight from self-repetition and the deadening business of living up to created expectations." The body of work in Poems 1968-1998--a comprehensive gathering of Paul Muldoons eight volumes---finds a great poet reinventing himself and recreating the business of poetry. The thirty-year effort of Muldoons career thus far, is altogether like a fascinatingly mutable climate in which each freshening period brings---as his first collection was predictively titled---new weather.