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In this new collection 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, 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 the 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).The Word on the Street is a lively addition to this Pulitzer Prize-winning poet''s masterful body of work. It demonstrates, once again, that, as Richard Eder has written in the pages of the New York Times Book Review, ''Paul Muldoon is a shape-shifting Pro

The Word on the Street

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      Publisher Faber & Faber
      Published 21 March 2013
      ISBN-13 9780571299065
      978-0571299065
      ISBN-10 0571299067

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      Book Synopsis
      In this new collection 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, 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 the 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).The Word on the Street is a lively addition to this Pulitzer Prize-winning poet''s masterful body of work. It demonstrates, once again, that, as Richard Eder has written in the pages of the New York Times Book Review, ''Paul Muldoon is a shape-shifting Pro

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