Paul Muldoon in translation

Abstract

Paul Muldoon (1951 ”“ ) is a Northern-Irish poet from a catholic background who was born in Portdown, County Armagh. Along with Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley and Ciaran Carson, among others, he was part of the so called Belfast Group, organized by Philip Hobsbaum. His first book, New Weather, was published in 1973. Since then, he has published twelve other books of poems, the most recent being Frolic and Detour, in 2019. Besides that, he has already published children’s literature, opera libretti, collections of rock n’ roll lyrics and plays. He has been awarded the T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry for The Annals of Chile (1994) and the Pulitzer Prize for poetry for Moy Sand and Gravel (2002). He moved to the United States in 1987, where he was an associate professor of the Creative Writing Program at Princeton University until 2017 and also, until 2016, poetry editor for The New Yorker magazine. The following translations are part of the appendix of the thesis “Uma Camisa de Força para Houdini: Paul Muldoon, Forma Fixa e Tradução”, defended at UFPR in February 2020.