Songs and Sonnets

by Paul Muldoon

Overview

Paul Muldoon has been interested in writing for music for at least twenty years, over which time he has collaborated with composers as various as Mark-Anthony Turnage, Warren Zevon, and Wayside Shrines, the Princeton-based musical collective of which he is a founder member. Songs and Sonnets brings together poems and lyrics from a writer who has been described by The Irish Times as 'a force of nature.'

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781907587603
Publisher:	Enitharmon Press
Publication date:	03/26/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	177 KB

About the Author

Paul Muldoon was born in Co. Armagh, Northern Ireland in 1951. He now lives in the US, where he teaches at Princeton University and is poetry editor for the The New Yorker. He has published eleven collections of poems, most recently Maggot (Faber, 2010). His awards include the Pulitzer, Griffin, T.S. Eliot and European Prizes for poetry.

Table of Contents

Resistance 7

Till I Met You 9

If Any of This Gets Out 10

Pip and Magwitch 12

Mad for You 13

This Last Great Country Song 15

It Won't Be Anytime Soon 17

A Dent 19

Le Flanneur 20

3-Car Garage 21

Chances Are 23

Good As It Gets 25

Shoot 'Em Up 27

You Got the Rolex (I Got the Rolodex) 28

Hey Rachel 30

Continuity Girl 32

A Giraffe 34

The Adult Thing 35

Party Lines 37

Same Old Same Old 38

Honey 40

Recalculating 41

One-Hit Wonder 42

The Hillbilly Hilton 44

11 o'Clock 46

Editorial Reviews

"They are complex, charged performances that vibrate in the interim between one thing and the other. They'll rock your world." —Maria Johnston, Guardian


"They are complex, charged performances that vibrate in the interim between one thing and the other. They'll rock your world." —Maria Johnston, theguardian.com

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