Moy Sand and Gravel: Poems

by Paul Muldoon

Book Overview

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Moy Sand and Gravel by Paul Muldoon, "the most significant English-language poet born since the Second World War" (The Times Literary Supplement).Paul Muldoon's ninth... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374528845
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.3" x 5.0"

Customer Reviews

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Here's a Muldoon pastiche:BasementThen to spyin an unused cellar spotUnder a bulb fixturelong since jury-riggedin deal cast-offAnd between oil tankand salt-scalloped stone wall--Between a ruckand a carapace--A tiny skeleton--mouse.My instinct:to trip-tipsy the dark--As even the Deanand Cuchulain might--fantastic.[My opinion is that Muldoon peaked in 1990 with his tour de force, MADOC--A Mystery, the book-length poem and astounding work of the imagination. MADOC was large, confounding, mysterious, lyrical, and sui generis (really). Yet many readers/reviewers did not appreciate it. Since that work, Muldoon seemingly has tried to obtain such appreciation by offering more manageable fare--featuring topical themes, easy wit, sentiment, form, and rhyme (not to mention all those pretty names of Irish places). He has served up plates of warm apercus. If that is your thing--fine. He is terribly accomplished--his more recent poems, including those of Moy Sand and Gravel, sparkle with polish and panache. But I will take the polar edge of the creative MADOC thankyouverymuch.]