New York. 2001. Farrar Straus Giroux. 1st American Edition. Bump To Top Of

New York. 2001. Farrar Straus Giroux. 1st American Edition. Bump To Top Of Spine, Otherwise Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket. 0374125430. 479 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Gretchen Achilles. Jacket art: McArt's Fort from the Mountain to between the Fort and the Caves (c.1828) by Andrew Nicholl (1804-1886). keywords: Europe Ireland Literature Poetry World Literature. DESCRIPTION-POEMS 1968-1988 is a comprehensive gathering of Paul Muldoon's eight volumes that finds a great poet reinventing himself at every turn. Sven Birkerts has written of Paul Muldoon, ‘It is not usual for a poet of [his] years to have. an oeuvre disclosing significant shifts and evolutions. But Muldoon, more than most, is an artist in high flight from self-repetition and the deadening business of living up to created expectations)' The author of this body of work, whom The Times Literary Supplement has called ‘the most significant English-language poet born since the Second World War, situates us in a fascinatingly mutable climate in which each freshening period brings-as his first collection was predictively titled-new weather. inventory #24887.