Article: Paul Muldoon. Horse Latitudes.(The End of the Poem: Oxford Lectures)(Book review)

Paul Muldoon. Horse Latitudes. New York. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 2006. viii + 107 pages. $22. ISBN 0-374-17305-2

--. The End of the Poem: Oxford Lectures. New York. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 2006. 406 pages. $30. ISBN 0-374-14810-4

PAUL MULDOON is an Irish poet who has built a formidable reputation on sheer audacity. He has been called "a poet's poet," which means that, like John Ashbery, he is a master manipulator of words, whose poetry is an elaborate series of verbal puzzles. His latest volume of poems is called Horse Latitudes. It has nothing to do with geography. In fact, it deliberately avoids any connection with the area of the globe to which the ...

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