A Financial Times Book of the Year 2019
Celebrated for his dense, imaginative allusions, Muldoon fills his poems with a cast from antiquity to the present. –
Publishers Weekly One of the world's finest poets at his best. –Raul Nino,
Booklist Muldoon's extraordinary facility with both familiar and rare closed forms and his acrobatically inventive rhyming and off-rhyming have diminished not a whit in his sixties . . . Like Ashbery in his final collections, or Cohen in his final albums, Muldoon has nothing left to prove, and can take delight simply in doing what he inimitably does. And his delight is ours. –Paul Scott Stanfield,
Ploughshares Muldoon's 13th collection applies his characteristically nimble rhymes and musical faculty for language to matters of art (Picasso, Braque), history (the Easter Rising, World War I) and mortality. –Jyoti Thottam,
The New York Times Book Review [Muldoon] has Donne's baroque intellectual conceits, but also Byron's ebullience in word-play... If you buy one book of poetry this year, make it this one. –Stuart Kelly,
Scotland on Sunday For all his wit, Muldoon can still be deeply moving. –Tristram Fane Saunders,
Daily Telegraph
