A Conversation with Paul Muldoon Author of The Bannisters (Vallum Chapbook Series No. 29) Interview by Rosie Long Decter Paul Muldoon is one of the most acclaimed English-language poets of the last century. He brings his trademark mastery of language and poetic form to his new chapbook, The Bannisters, published in the Vallum Chapbook Series. […]
Paul Muldoon | Excerpt from THE BANNISTERS
Excerpt from The Bannisters MAYDAY 1 The desert would be an ocean were it able to withhold its judgment on wavelet after sand-wavelet and suspend itself over its own floor. 2 It’s not only death’s a Great Leveller. 3 The desert has its own version of spume, its own version of spindrift— that flurry of […]