{"product_id":"maggot-paperback","title":"Maggot - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePaul Muldoon\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOf \u003ci\u003ePlan B\u003c\/i\u003e, which included several of the poems in \u003ci\u003eMaggot\u003c\/i\u003e, Robert McCrum recently said in the London \u003ci\u003eObserver \u003c\/i\u003ethat Paul Muldoon, who has done so much to reimagine the poet's task, has surpassed himself with his latest collection. In his eleventh full-length book, Muldoon reminds us that he is a traditional poet who is steadfastly at odds with tradition. If the poetic sequence is the main mode of \u003ci\u003eMaggot\u003c\/i\u003e, it certainly isn't your father's poetic sequence. Taking as a starting point W. B. Yeats's remark that the only fit topics for a serious mood are sex and the dead, Muldoon finds unexpected ways of thinking and feeling about what it means to come to terms with the early twenty-first century. It's no accident that the centerpiece of \u003ci\u003eMaggot \u003c\/i\u003eis an outlandish meditation on a failed poem that draws on the vocabulary of entomological forensics. The last series of linked lyrics, meanwhile, takes as its subject the urge to memorialize the scenes of fatal automobile accidents. The extravagant linkage of rot and the erotic is at the heart of not only the title sequence but also many of the round songs that characterize \u003ci\u003eMaggot\u003c\/i\u003e, and has led Angela Leighton, writing in \u003ci\u003eThe Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e, to see these new poems as giving readers a thrilling, wild, fairground ride, with few let-ups for the squeamish.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePaul Muldoon\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of ten books of poetry, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning \u003ci\u003eMoy Sand and Gravel \u003c\/i\u003e(FSG, 2002) and, most recently, \u003ci\u003eHorse Latitudes \u003c\/i\u003e(FSG, 2006). He teaches at Princeton University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 144\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 8.1 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 13, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42724148871231,"sku":"9780374533014","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/bd482c1800d64007b587cfb08506bdc6.webp?v=1765101665","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/maggot-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}