<div>"Ireland"<br><i>The Volkswagen parked in the gap,</i><br><i>But gently ticking over.</i><br><i>You wonder if it's lovers</i><br><i>And not men hurrying back</i><br><i>Across two fields and a river.</i><br><br>Sven Birkerts has said, "It is not usual for a poet of Muldoon's years to have . . . an oeuvre disclosing significant shifts and evolutions. But Muldoon, more than most, is an artist in high flight from self-repetition and the deadening business of living up to created expectations." The body of work in Poems 1968-1998 -- a comprehensive gathering of Paul Muldoon's eight volumes -- finds a great poet reinventing himself at every turn. Muldoon's career thus far shows us a fascinatingly mutable climate in which each freshening period brings -- as his first collection was predictively titled -- new weather."<br></div>