Synopses & Reviews
Winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize,
The Annals of Chile confirms Paul Muldoons stature as one of the most talented poets of his generation. The heart of the book is the long poem “Yarrow,” in which Muldoons 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 Muldoons inspired adaptation of an episode from Ovids
Metamorphoses.
Review
“Paul Muldoon is one of the most inventive and ambitious poets working today. The Annals of Chile is his best book yet.” - Lawrence Norfolk,
Times Literary Supplement
About the Author
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.