ANNALS OF CHILE PB
Paul Muldoon's poetry collection braids personal experience with historical imagination through layered memory and agile wordplay. Longer sequences and lyrical fragments build a voice that keeps changing shape.
Work Information
A collection that fuses memory and history into a single driving current without losing its wit or technical control.
With intricate associations and long, breath-driven lines, Paul Muldoon's collection rethreads memory, myth, and history. Its technical range and playfulness emerge at the same time.
Review Summaries
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Readers often praise the verbal agility and long breath of the poems, while some are unsettled by the density and detours. Its richness as a poem of play and invention stands out most.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Published
- 1995-10-30
- Pages
- 200 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 13.97 x 1.14 x 21.59 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780374524562
- ISBN-10
- 0374524564
- Price
- 3326 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Poetry/British
Winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize, The Annals of Chile confirms Paul Muldoon's stature as one of the most talented poets of his generation. The heart of the book is the long poem "Yarrow," in which Muldoon's powers of insight and wordplay and surprising association are on exuberant display: evoking the 1960s, the poet conjures up a boundless historical present peopled at once by Davy Crockett and Tristan Tzara and Wild Bill Hickok, by Maud Gonne and Michael Jackson, all bought swifly and vividly to life by his fantastical imagination. The collection also contains a group of shorter poems, including "The Birth," a delicate lyric which celebrates the arrival of a baby girl; "Incantata," a deeply felt elegy to a former lover; a Muldoon's inspired adaptation of an episode from Ovid's Metamorphoses .
Paul Muldoon was born in 1951 in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. He lives and teaches in Princeton, New Jersey. Better known for his poetry, his works include Poems 1968-1998 , Hay and Moy Sand and Gravel .
Related Literary Awards
- T. S. Eliot Prize Edition 2 (1994) ・Winner