{"product_id":"one-thousand-things-worth-knowing-paperback","title":"One Thousand Things Worth Knowing - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePaul Muldoon\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnother wild, expansive collection from the eternally surprising Pulitzer Prize-winning poet\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSmuggling diesel; \u003ci\u003eBen-Hur\u003c\/i\u003e (the movie, yes, but also Lew Wallace's original book, and Seosamh Mac Grianna's Gaelic translation); a real trip to Havana; an imaginary trip to the Château d'If: 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.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIf 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. \u003ci\u003eOne Thousand Things Worth Knowing\u003c\/i\u003e confirms Nick Laird's assessment, in \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, that Muldoon is \"the most formally ambitious and technically innovative of modern poets,\" an experimenter and craftsman who \"writes poems like no one else.\"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePaul Muldoon\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of eleven previous books of poetry, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning \u003ci\u003eMoy Sand and Gravel\u003c\/i\u003e (FSG, 2002). He is the Howard G. B. Clark University Professor at Princeton.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 128\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 8.1 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 12, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52405869969713,"sku":"9780374536688","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0958\/3486\/5969\/files\/TXZzbG45NENzRHBuREZYdmRYM2ZiQT09.webp?v=1768940469","url":"https:\/\/www.welibooks.com\/products\/one-thousand-things-worth-knowing-paperback","provider":"Welibooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}