Horse Latitudes

Zusatztext

Paul Muldoon's new collection opens with a sonnet sequence,'Horse Latitudes', written as the U.S. embarked on its foray into Iraq. Poems on historical battles where horses played an important part present us with a commentary on the political agenda of America today.

Autorenportrait

Paul Muldoon was born in 1951 in County Armagh, Northern Ireland, and educated at the Queen's University of Belfast. Since 1987 he has lived in the U.S.A., where he teaches at Princeton University. Between 1999 and 2004 he was Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford. Paul Muldoon's most recent collections are Hay (1998), Poems 1969-1998 (2001), and Moy Sand and Gravel (2002), for which he was awarded the Pultizer Prize for Poetry. Horse Latitudes is his tenth collection.

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