September 15

The Irish poet PAUL MULDOON has been called "the Cassius Clay of poetry" (Publisher's Weekly), "one of the most inventive and ambitious poets working today (The Times, London), "an original genius, using words in a new way" (A. S. Byatt), and "one of the era's true geniuses" (Seamus Heaney). We are delighted to begin our fall series with a celebration of Muldoon's newest book of poems, Hay, his ninth collection, which will be published (by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux) a few days before his reading at Seton Hall. By turns glorious and witty, elegant and edgy, this new book is sure to bring even wider acclaim for "the much-laurelled Irish wonder-poet" (The Independent on Sunday, London).

Paul Muldoon's earlier books of poetry include New Weather, Why Brownee Left, Meeting the British, and The Annals of Chile, for which he received the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Irish Times Literature Prize for Poetry.

Born in Northern Ireland in 1951, Muldoon worked as a radio and television producer with the BBC in Northern Ireland for thirteen years. Since 1986, he has taught at numerous British and American universities, including Cambridge, the University of California at Berkeley, and the University of Massachusetts. He is presently Howard G. B. Clark Professor at Princeton University.