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'Lamentations'

By: Paul Muldoon
Publisher: The Gallery Press
Published: November 2017
Pages: 80
Categories: Literature
Available as: Hardback, Paperback
On sale at: www.gallerypress.com
ISBN-13: 9781911337263
ASIN: 1911337262

A translation of a classic 18th-century Irish poem introduces a dramatic reimagining of the heartrending rage of ‘The Lament for Art O’Leary’; a sequence of lyrics from musicals about Ben Gunn and ‘Typhoid Mary’ Mallon (an asymptomatic carrier who, after decades in isolation, re-emerged to infect others), and an extended howl that begins with pillow talk and includes the Táin Bó that becomes Bo Diddley and the bó of beau monde. For all the anguish and the haunting music of these narratives there is in our most protean poet a fair share of frolic and linguistic sport.

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