[New-Poetry] A munch & some jawing with Paul Muldoon

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_http://www.ft.com/cms/s/035e89ee-4571-11dc-b359-0000779fd2ac.html_ 
(http://www.ft.com/cms/s/035e89ee-4571-11dc-b359-0000779fd2ac.html) 
Lunch  with the FT: Paul Muldoon
By Ed Holland 
 
Published: August 10 2007 22:23 | Last updated: August 10 2007 22:23
 
In Martin Amis’s short story “Career Move”, the customary positions of the  
poet and the screenplay writer are transposed. Screenwriters, toiling in  
mouldering garrets, submit scripts to obscure publishers in the hope of some  
pitiable compensation. Poets are flown first-class between London and Los  Angeles 
to discuss million-dollar development deals for single sonnets.
 
When Paul Muldoon meets me at Princeton station, I wonder whether the story  
was prophetic. Appearing suddenly, he waves me in the direction of a car. 
There  is nothing especially remarkable about getting a ride from a poet, but this 
car  was a Corvette. A long, gleaming, bright blue Corvette. Perhaps he has 
signed a  mega-contract for some blockbuster new ode?
 
“I borrowed it from a colleague,” Muldoon says as we subside into our  
bucket seats
 
 



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