Paul Muldoon: Maggot [2011] paperback ZDUBL But might such notions be

But might such notions be more than science fiction

At this bleak moment

and the tragedy of the Children of Lir

the vengeful god who has blessed Rin with her fearsome power

And the Irish would repay Lincoln's faith-their numbers and courage would help swing the Civil War in his favor

Paul Muldoon: Maggot [2011] paperback ZDUBL But might such notions beIn 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 and feeling about what it means to come to terms with the