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Muldoon, Paul.
English poetry -- Irish authors.
Irish poetry.
Songs -- Texts.
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The
word
on the
street
:
rock
lyrics
/ Paul Muldoon.
by
Muldoon, Paul.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013.
Call #:
821 M954w
Subjects
English poetry -- Irish authors.
Irish poetry.
Songs -- Texts.
ISBN:
9780374261085
0374261083
Edition:
First edition.
Description:
x, 76 p. ; 16 cm.
Summary:
"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 as
rock
songs, performed by Wayside Shrines, the Princeton-based music collective of which Muldoon is a member. Their themes are the classic themes of song: lost love, lost wars, Charlton Heston, barbed wire, pole dancers, cellulite, Hegel, elephants, Oedipus, more barbed wire, Buddy Holly, Jersey peaches, Julius Caesar, Trenton, cockatoos, and the Youngers (Bob and John and Jim and Cole)"--From publisher.
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