Death of a Naturalist
Fellow Irish poet Paul Muldoon on the moral—and literary—authority of Seamus Heaney, who died Friday at the age of 74. Plus, Colum McCann’s tribute to Heaney.
Paul Muldoon was appointed poetry editor of The New Yorker in 2007. He is the Howard G.B. Clark ’21 Professor at Princeton University and founding chairman of the Lewis Center for the Arts. His main collections of poetry are New Weather (1973), Mules (1977), Why Brownlee Left (1980), Quoof (1983), Meeting the British (1987), Madoc: A Mystery (1990), The Annals of Chile (1994), Hay (1998), Poems 1968-1998 (2001), Moy Sand and Gravel (2002), Horse Latitudes (2006), Maggot (2010) and The Word on the Street: Rock Lyrics (2013).
Book Bag
The Pulitzer Prize–winning poet, whose new collection is The Word on the Street: Rock Lyrics, picks his favorite rock-and-roll books. His band, Wayside Shrines, will be performing the songs on The Word on the Street at Joe's Pub tomorrow, Wednesday, Feb. 20, at 7 p.m.
The The New Yorker poetry editor picks his favorite love poems, from Emily Dickinson's wild nights, to John Donne's 16th century pick-up lines.