{"product_id":"word-on-the-street-book-paul-muldoon-9780571299065","title":"The Word on the Street","description":"In  this new collection Paul Muldoon goes back to the essential meaning of  the term 'lyric' -a short poem sung to the accompaniment of a musical  instrument. These words are written for music, assuredly, with half an  ear to Yeats's ballad-singing porter drinkers and half to Cole  Porter-and indeed, many of them double as rock songs, performed by the  Wayside Shrines, the Princeton-based music collective of which Muldoon  is a member. Their themes are the classic themes of song: lost love,  lost wars, Charlton Heston, barbed wire, pole dancers, cellulite, Hegel,  elephants, Oedipus, more barbed wire, Buddy Holly, Jersey peaches,  Julius Caesar, Trenton, cockatoos, and the Youngers (Bob and John and  Jim and Cole).The Word on the Street is a lively addition to this  Pulitzer Prize-winning poet's masterful body of work. It demonstrates,  once again, that, as Richard Eder has written in the pages of the New York Times Book Review,  'Paul Muldoon is a shape-shifting Proteus to readers who try to pin him  down . . . Those who interrogate Muldoon's poems find themselves  changing shapes each time he does.'","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49582076887313,"sku":"GOR005047297","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0571299067.jpg?v=1771502656","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/word-on-the-street-book-paul-muldoon-9780571299065","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}