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Paul Muldoon


Northern Irish poet, literary critic and academic who has lived in the USA for the past twenty years.
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Words want to find chimes with each other, things want to connect.
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The point of poetry is to be acutely discomforting, to prod and provoke, to poke us in the eye, to punch us in the nose, to knock us off our feet, to take our breath away.
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If the poem has no obvious destination, there's a chance that we'll be all setting off on an interesting ride.




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Form is a straitjacket in the way that a straitjacket was a straitjacket for Houdini.
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