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One thousand things worth knowing : poems / Paul Muldoon.

by Muldoon, Paul.

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015.

English poetry -- Irish authors.

English poetry -- 21st century.

Irish poetry -- 21st century.

117 p. ; 22 cm.

Cuthbert and the otters -- Pelt -- Charles Emile Jacque: Poultry among trees -- Pip and Magwitch -- A dent -- Dodgems -- Barrage balloons, Buck Alec, bird flu and you -- Rita Duffy: Watchtower II -- A night on the tiles with J. C. Mangan -- Saffron -- At the lab -- A civil war suite -- Recalculating -- WE love the horse because its haunch -- Anonymous: From "Marban and Guaire" -- Federico Garcia Lorca: "Death" -- A pillar -- Catamaran -- Near the Grace of God nail salon -- A giraffe -- Dromedaries and dung beetles -- Some pitfalls and how to avoid them -- Cuba (2) -- Tusker -- Honey -- Seven selfies from the Chateau d'If -- The firing squad -- Alvaro de Campos: "Belfast, 1922" -- Los Dissidentes -- Required fields -- To market, to market -- Noah & Sons -- Paul Muldoon: "Pompeii" -- Camile Pissarro: Apple picking at Eragny-sur-Epte -- Dirty data.

"Another wild, expansive collection from the eternally surprising Pulitzer Prize-winning poet. Smuggling diesel; Ben-Hur (the movie, yes, but also Lew Wallace's original book, and Seosamh Mac Grianna's Gaelic translation); a real trip to Havana; an imaginary trip to the Château d'If: Paul Muldoon's newest collection of poems, his twelfth, is exceptionally wide-ranging in its subject matter--as we've come to expect from this master of self-reinvention. He can be somber or quick-witted--often within the same poem: The mournful refrain of "Cuthbert and the Otters" is "I cannot thole the thought of Seamus Heaney dead," but that doesn't stop Muldoon from quipping that the ancient Danes "are already dyeing everything beige / In anticipation, perhaps, of the carpet and mustard factories." If this masterful, multifarious collection does have a theme, it is watchfulness. "War is to wealth as performance is to appraisal," he warns in "Recalculating." And "Source is to leak as Ireland is to debt." Heedful, hard-won, head-turning, heartfelt, these poems attempt to bring scrutiny to bear on everything, including scrutiny itself. One Thousand Things Worth Knowing confirms Nick Laird's assessment, in The New York Review of Books, that Muldoon is "the most formally ambitious and technically innovative of modern poets," an experimenter and craftsman who "writes poems like no one else." Paul Muldoon was born on a farm in County Armagh, outside The Moy, near the boundary with County Tyrone, in Northern Ireland. He is the author of eleven previous books of poetry, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Moy Sand and Gravel, published in 2002. He held the post of Oxford Professor of Poetry from 1999 to 2004, and is now the Howard G. B. Clark University Professor at Princeton University in New Jersey."--Provided by publisher.

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