[New-Poetry] Muldoon's Maggot

[jforjames at aol.com]

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/arts/wit-worms-its-way-into-death-and-decay/story-e6frg8nf-1225973070694
Wit worms its way into death and decay 
Felicity Plunkett 
The Australian December 18, 2010 
MAGGOT, by Paul Muldoon, Faber & Faber, 120pp, $35 (HB) 

MAGGOTS burgeon where form and flesh disintegrate. Because they only consume necrotic tissue, maggots are sometimes introduced into wounds to initiate the healing process.

My first thought on opening Maggot, Paul Muldoon's 11th book of poems, was to wonder what maggots have to do with poetry. By the end, Muldoon dazzlingly replaces this with another question: what don't maggots have to do with poetry?

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