Новинки Пола Малдуна

In this extraordinary book, with unparalleled candour, Paul McCartney recounts his life and art through the prism of 154 songs from all stages of his career - from his earliest boyhood compositions through the legendary decade of The Beatles, to Wings and his solo albums to the present. Arranged alphabetically to provide a kaleidoscopic rather than chronological account, it establishes definitive texts of the songs' lyrics for the first time and describes the circumstances in which they were written, the people and places that inspired them, and what he thinks of them now. Presented with this is a treasure trove of material from McCartney's personal archive - drafts, letters, photographs - never seen before, which make this also a unique visual record of one of the greatest songwriters of all time.

We learn intimately about the man, the creative process, the working out of melodies, the moments of inspiration. The voice and personality of Paul McCartney sings off every page. There has never been a book about a great musician like it.

Selected Poems 1968-2014 offers forty-five years of work drawn from twelve individual collections by a poet who 'began as a prodigy and has gone on to become a virtuoso' (Michael Hofmann). Hailed by Seamus Heaney as 'one of the era's true originals', Muldoon seems determined to escape definition yet this volume, chosen by the poet himself, serves as an indispensable introduction to his trademark combination of intellectual high jinx and emotional honesty. Among his many honours are the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the Shakespeare Prize 'for contributions from English-speaking Europe to the European inheritance.'

The title of Horse Latitudes , Paul Muldoon’s tenth collection of poetry, refers to those areas thirty degrees north and south of the equator where sailing ships tend to be becalmed, where stasis (if not stagnation) is the order of

Book Description Paul Muldoon's ninth collection of poems, his first since Hay (1998), finds him working a rich vein that extends from the rivery, apple-heavy County Armagh of the 1950s, in which he was brought up, to suburban New Jersey,

`Peaches and diesel` - выражение, изобретенное Полом Малдуном. В английском есть идиома `peaches and cream`, означающее `одно сплошное удовольствие` (буквально: `персики со сливками`). В стихах, посвященных памяти Бродского, Малдун характеризует голос поэта как `peaches-and-diesel` - сладостный и мощный, сладостный и горький. Прямой перевод этого выражения на русский язык невозможен. Мед и мазут - ближайший эквивалент, который был найден для выражения полярных сил - природы и технологии, лирики и неочищенной прозы, - определяющих нынешнее звучание ирландской поэзии.
Медоречивый - таков был эпитет певца в древней Ирландии. Время и суровая ирландская судьба подмешала немало горечи в этот мед. Слишком много проблем у современных поэтов, в слишком сложном мире они живут - наследники славы и обид, граждане мира, неисправимые ирландцы.

The Annals of Chile, Paul Muldoon's first book of new poetry since the acclaimed Madoc: A Mystery (1991), confirms the widely held view that he is the most talented poet of his generation. The heart of the book is the long poem Yarrow, in which all Muldoon's powers of insight and wordplay and surprising association are on exuberant display. Evoking the 1960s, the poet conjures up a boundless historical present peopled at once by Davy Crockett and Tristan Tzara and Wild Bill Hickok, by Maud Gonne and Michael Jackson, all brought swiftly and vividly to life by his fantastical imagination. The book also contains a group of shorter poems, including The Birth, a delicate lyric which celebrates the arrival of a baby daughter; Incantata, a powerful elegy to a former lover; and Muldoon's inspired adaptation of an episode from Ovid's Metamorphoses. Art, Muldoon writes, builds from pain, from misery, from a deep-seated hurt / a monument to the human heart; and here, out of strong emotion, in memorable language, Muldoon has once again fashioned rich and vital poetry.