Moy Sand and Gravel: Poems Arias Mandella and other well-heeled humans

Mandella and other well-heeled humans grow tired of their safe existence

more than seven hundred American college students descended upon segregated

and guidance counselors

refining works in progress and putting major screenwriting careers back on track

Moy Sand and Gravel: Poems Arias Mandella and other well-heeled humansPaul Muldoon's ninth collection of poems, his first since Hay (1998), finds him working a rich vein that extends from the rivery, apple heavy County Armagh of the 1950s, in which he was brought up, to suburban New Jersey, on the banks of a canal dug by Irish navvies, where he now lives. Grounded, glistening, as gritty as they are graceful, these poems seem capable of taking in almost anything, and anybody, be it a Tuareg glimpsed on the Irish border,