One Thousand Things Worth Knowing
| By: | Paul Muldoon |
| Publisher: | Faber & Faber |
| Published: | January 2015 |
| Pages: | 128 |
| Categories: | Poetry |
| Language: | English |
| Available as: | Hardback |
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Paul Muldoon's new book, his twelfth collection of poems, is wide-ranging in its subject matter yet is everywhere concerned with watchfulness. Heedful, hard won, head-turning, heartfelt, these poems attempt to bring scrutiny to bear on everything, including scrutiny itself. One Thousand Things Worth Knowing confirms Nick Laird's assessment, in the New York Review of Books, that Paul Muldoon is 'the most formally ambitious and technically innovative of modern poets, [who] writes poems like no one else.'
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