"With an ear to the ground / and my neck on the block / I would tend to my wound / in Belleek and Bellanaleck." Paul Muldoon keeps his ear very much to Irish ground (and tends to many wounds, such as in the above "Hard Drive") in his new poetry collection "Moy Sand and Gravel." As always, Muldoon can be playful and tender in the same stanza, and few poets use familiar Irish landmarks to such intimate effect. ($22 / 107 pages / Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
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