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One Thousand Things Worth Knowing
by Muldoon, Paul
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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. | | |
Published 20150113
by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Hardcover, 128 Pages, ISBN: 9780374227128, ISBN-10: 0374227128, List Price $24.00.
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