"The most significant English-Language poet born since the second
world war." --The Times Literary Supplement
Selected Poems 1968-2014 offers forty-six years of work drawn from
twelve individual collections by a poet who "began as a prodigy and has
gone on to become a virtuoso" (Michael Hofmann). Hailed by Seamus Heaney
as "one of the era's true originals," Paul Muldoon seems determined to
escape definition, yet this volume, compiled by the poet himself, serves
as an indispensable introduction to his trademark combination of
intellectual hijinks and emotional honesty. Among his many honors are
the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the Shakespeare Prize "for
contributions from English-speaking Europe to the European inheritance."
"Among contemporaries, Paul Muldoon, one of the great poets of the past
hundred years, who can be everything in his poems--word-playful,
lyrical, hilarious, melancholy. And angry. Only Yeats before him could
write with such measured fury." --Roger Rosenblatt, The New York Times