{"product_id":"maggot-by-paul-muldoon","title":"'Maggot' by Paul Muldoon","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"159\" data-end=\"455\"\u003e\n\u003cem data-start=\"171\" data-end=\"179\"\u003eMaggot\u003c\/em\u003e is Paul Muldoon in his dense, slippery, formally obsessive mode.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"159\" data-end=\"455\"\u003eA collection of poems that wriggle through history, violence, language, animals, jokes, elegy, and grotesque little verbal traps. It is clever in the old murderous sense of the word — not merely smart, but equipped with teeth. The collection moves by echo, mutation and recurrence, with poems feeding off one another like small organisms in a sealed jar. Muldoon is not a poet of clean revelation; he is a poet of misdirection, pressure, rhyme, rot, wit, and aftershock. Good for readers who like poetry with a brain, a knife, and no interest in behaving nicely.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"159\" data-end=\"455\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst US hardback edition, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2010. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very good used condition with light shelf wear and minor handling to jacket; clean internally.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45346147008595,"sku":null,"price":16.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/Yourparagraphtext-2026-06-05T133923.197.png?v=1780630852","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/maggot-by-paul-muldoon","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}