The Word on the Street: Rock Lyrics

by Paul Muldoon

Book Overview

A vibrant new collection of poems--that also double as rock songs--from the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet

In his new book of rock lyrics, Paul Muldoon goes back to the essential meaning of the term "lyric"--a short poem sung to the accompaniment of a musical instrument. These words are written for music most assuredly, with half an ear to Yeats's ballad-singing porter drinkers and half to Cole Porter--and indeed, many of them double...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374261083
• ISBN13: 9780374261085
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.4" x 7.4"