false<![CDATA[Hay: Poems]]>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171997848m/131034.jpg1310342Though Paul Muldoon's voice is thoroughly his own, a taste for turbulent rhythms and fantastical journeys firmly links him with some of our finest poets, most notably Coleridge. In "The Mud Room," the start of this stunning collection, the speaker juxtaposes wildly dissimilar images--Pharaohs and Kikkoman soy sauce, Virgil's Georgics and "cardboard boxes from K-Mart," ziggurats and six-packs. Why? Because in piecing together the whole of our collective human past--the past of Jackson Browne's "The Pretender" on the same page as the past of Epicurus--Muldoon casts a vote for inclusion, a vote against exclusivity and relegation. He travels far to show such close relations. Rather than focus on differences, we're forced to consider a resemblance between rock stars and Pharaohs, and in turn a grander likeness that joins us all. <p> But in drawing together common connective strands of history, culture, and emotion, Muldoon is anything but general. His language is highly original and searching. He doesn't merely sniff dispassionately at the "otherness" of words; like an excited hound that has discovered the scent of another animal, he rolls vigorously in it--and makes it his own:<p> <blockquote> So a harum-scarum<br> bushman, hey, would slash one forearm<br> with a flint, ho, or a sliver of steel<br> till it flashed, hey ho, like a hel-<br> iograph.<br> </blockquote><p> These poems resonate with an easy coexistence of the ordinary and the exotic. Whether he's penning rhymed haiku (<I>rhymed haiku?</I>) about placid farm life ("None more dishevelled / than those who seemed most demure. / Our rag-weed revels") or quatrains about Cracow ("Into the Vistula swollen with rain / you and I might have plunged and found a way / to beat out the black grain / as our forefathers did on threshing day"), Muldoon's words gleam like jewels unearthed from everyday mud. <I>--Martha Silano</I> 1262061998Hay: Poemstotal:37|5:8|4:16|3:12|2:0|1:1|3714149300falsefalseSat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009Fri Sep 18 14:09:43 -0700 2009Fri Sep 18 14:10:11 -0700 200950falsefalseFri Jul 04 02:42:54 -0700 2008Mon Jul 21 03:18:26 -0700 2008
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