'I started the sonnet sequence "Horse Latitudes" as the U.S. embarked on its foray into Iraq. The poems have to do with a series of battles (all beginning with the letter 'B' as if to suggest a 'missing' Baghdad) in which horses or mules played a major role. Intercut with those battle-scenes are accounts of a 'battle' with cancer by a former lover, here named Carlotta, and a commentary on the agenda of what may only be described as the Bush 'regime'. The title poem was written for "Something beginning with P: New Poems from ...
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'I started the sonnet sequence "Horse Latitudes" as the U.S. embarked on its foray into Iraq. The poems have to do with a series of battles (all beginning with the letter 'B' as if to suggest a 'missing' Baghdad) in which horses or mules played a major role. Intercut with those battle-scenes are accounts of a 'battle' with cancer by a former lover, here named Carlotta, and a commentary on the agenda of what may only be described as the Bush 'regime'. The title poem was written for "Something beginning with P: New Poems from Irish Poets" (O'Brien Press) and was recently translated into Chinese in celebration of a visit to Shanghai and Beijing' - Paul Muldoon.
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Fine. First edition. Slim tall octavo. 25pp. Plain wrappers with marbeled dust jacket. Spine ends gently bumped else fine. One of 175 copies, Signed by Muldoon on the limitation page.
