He has, you will find,
two modes only, the chipmunk:
fast-forward; rewind.

 

 

 

[From his poem “News Headlines from the Homer Noble Farm” published in Moy Sand and Gravel, (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002.) Used with permission of the author.]

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Paul Muldoon

Paul Muldoon is an Irish poet. He has published over thirty collections and won a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the T. S. Eliot Prize. He held the post of Oxford Professor of Poetry from 1999 to 2004. At Princeton University he is both the Howard G. B. Clark '21 Professor in the Humanities and chair of the Lewis Center for the Arts. He is also the president of the Poetry Society (UK) and Poetry Editor at The New Yorker.

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  2. Very natural use of rhyme. Not noticeable but adds to the humour of the haiku. Captures the essence of these little animals.

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  5. Honored to be able to publish Paul Muldoon's work here on tinywords. I have a poem by him, "Symposium," that a friend typeset, hanging on the wall of my living room. It is a frequent source of amusement and enjoyment.

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