“The best poems … give the answers to questions only they have raised.” –Paul Muldoon, “Cuba (2)” in 1,000 Things worth knowing (2014)
Author: david
Discovery: Paul Muldoon
I very much admire Seamus Heaney, whose translations of Beowulf and the Aeneid excel the others that I’ve read. He led me to another Irish poet, Paul Muldoon, who’s perhaps equally attracted to using traditional (especially Gaelic) forms in non-traditional ways. Muldoon’s acute sense of place and history naturally play into his “Irish poems,” but… Continue reading Discovery: Paul Muldoon
The “old-fashioned” Mary Oliver
In her early poems, Mary Oliver was quite competent at writing in the allegedly defunct form of a sonnet — a lovely one.