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A new collection from the Pulitzer Prize-winning poetThough
Frolic and Detour is Paul Muldoon's thirteenth collection, it shows all the energy and ambition we might generally associate with a first book. Here, the poet brings his characteristic humor and humanity to the chickadee, the house wren, the deaths of Leonard Cohen and C. K. Williams, the Irish Rising, the Great War, and how "a streak of ragwort / may yet shine / as an off-the-record / remark becomes the party line."
Frolic and Detour reminds us that the sidelong glance is the sweetest, the tangential approach the most telling, and shows us why Paul Muldoon was described by Nick Laird, writing in
The New York Review of Books, as "the most formally ambitious and technically innovative of modern poets, [who] writes poems like no one else."
List of contents
The Great Horse of the World
Encheiresin Naturae
Memphis
Pablo Picasso: Bottle of Bass and Glass (1914)
Georges Braque: Still Life with Bottle of Bass (1914)
The Leader
In the Field with Mangas Coloradas
Corncrake and Curlew
Belfast Hymn
Walnuts
The Ambulance
1916: The Eoghan Rua Variations
Avalon
July 1, 1916: With the Ulster Division
Wilfred Owen: November 4, 1918
Armistice Day
Edward Elgar: Cello Concerto in E Minor (1919)
At Tuam
Likely to Go Unnoticed
Robert Lowell at Castletown House
April in New Hope
A Chickadee in Riverside Park
The Door
With Eilmer of Malmesbury
Plume
Hunting with Eagles, Western Mongolia, 2016
A Tortoise Aubade
Wave
Superior Aloeswood
At the River
It Wasn't Meant to Be Like This
Position Paper
A Rooster in Tepoztlán
Sodus
With Joseph Brant in Canajoharie
Putsch
Frolic and Detour
Acknowledgments
About the author
Paul Muldoon
