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The Word on the Street: Rock Lyrics
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The Word on the Street: Rock Lyrics Hardcover - 2013

by Paul Muldoon


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A vibrant new collection of poems--that also double as rock songs--from the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet In his new book of rock lyrics, Paul Muldoon goes back to the essential meaning of the term "lyric"--a short poem sung to the accompaniment of a musical instrument. These words are written for music most assuredly, with half an ear to Yeats's ballad-singing porter drinkers and half to Cole Porter--and indeed, many of them double as rock songs, performed by Wayside Shrines, the Princeton-based music collective of which Muldoon is a member. Their themes are the classic themes of song: lost love, lost wars, Charlton Heston, barbed wire, pole dancers, cellulite, Hegel, elephants, Oedipus, more barbed wire, Buddy Holly, Jersey peaches, Julius Caesar, Trenton, cockatoos, and the Youngers (Bob and John and Jim and Cole). The Word on the Street is a lively addition to this Pulitzer Prize-winning poet's masterful body of work. It demonstrates, once again, that, as Richard Eder has written in the pages of The New York Times Book Review, "Paul Muldoon is a shape-shifting Proteus to readers who try to pin him down . . . Those who interrogate Muldoon's poems find themselves changing shapes each time he does."

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  • Title The Word on the Street: Rock Lyrics
  • Author Paul Muldoon
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First edition
  • Pages 96
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York
  • Date 2013-02
  • ISBN 9780374261085 / 0374261083
  • Weight 0.42 lbs (0.19 kg)
  • Dimensions 5.86 x 5.8 x 0.74 in (14.88 x 14.73 x 1.88 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Rock music, American poetry - 21st century
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2012012378
  • Dewey Decimal Code 821.914

About the author

Paul Muldoon is the author of eleven books of poetry, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Moy Sand and Gravel (FSG, 2002) and, most recently, Maggot (FSG, 2010). He is the Howard G. B. Clark University Professor at Princeton.
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