Maggot

In his eleventh full-length collection, Paul Muldoon reminds us that he is a traditional poet who is steadfastly at odds with tradition. If the poetic sequence is the main mode of Maggot, it certainly isn''t your father''s poetic sequence. Taking as a starting point W. B. Yeats''s remark that the only fit topics for a serious mood are ''sex and the dead'', Muldoon finds unexpected ways of thinking...