{"id":363,"date":"2005-03-13T21:24:38","date_gmt":"2005-03-14T02:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=363"},"modified":"2006-10-02T15:47:53","modified_gmt":"2006-10-02T20:47:53","slug":"modern-love-the-poetry-and-the-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/modern-love-the-poetry-and-the-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Modern Love (the poetry and the music)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.paulmuldoon.net\/images\/pmuldoon.jpg\" alt=\"Rocking Paul Muldoon\" align=right \/><br \/>\nOne of my guilty pleasures is reading<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/pages\/fashion\/columns\/index.html\"> the &#8220;Modern Love&#8221; feature<\/a> in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/pages\/fashion\/index.html\">New York Times Sunday Style section<\/a>. The pleasure shouldn&#8217;t be that guilty; they have very good writers writing very good and interesting takes on varieties of love in the modern age (or at least the contemporary age). Over and over I see articles by writers that I know are good but I am surprised to see in the Times and more surprised to see in the Style section.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/03\/13\/fashion\/13love.html?\">Take today&#8217;s for instance.<\/a> Novelist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/search-handle-url\/index=books&#038;field-author=Jean%20Hanff%20Korelitz\/\">Jean Hanff Korelitz<\/a> writes of the surprise of watching her husband at age 53 decided to take up rock guitar, to join up with an financial manager, a Renaissance poetry professor and a lawyer to form <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rackett.org\/\">a band called Rackett<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulmuldoon.net\/music.php4\">to end up with a song co-written by Warren Zevon and produced by Bruce Springstein.<\/a> The unsurprising part is that her husband is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/search-handle-url\/index=books&#038;field-author=Paul%20Muldoon\/\">the immensely literarily gifted poet Paul Muldoon.<\/a> The surprising part is that her husband is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulmuldoon.net\/\">the rather wrinkled and distracted 50ish Irish intellectual Paul Muldoon.<\/a> Hanff Korelitz does a wonderful and loving and modern take on mid-life crisis and the odd success of Muldoon&#8217;s passion and her sharing of that passion.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Small personal note:<\/strong> I was a reader\/reviewer for some of Paul Muldoon&#8217;s earlier works when they were being published by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wfu.edu\/wfupress\/\">Wake Forest University Press<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsci.wustl.edu\/~english\/people\/profiles\/johnston.htm\">the wonderful Dillon Johnston<\/a> (who looks much more like an older rock star than Muldoon). I particularly remember the joy of reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0916390195\/qid=1110766806\/sr=8-2\/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i2_xgl14\/103-7834329-7448629?v=glance&#038;s=books&#038;n=507846\">his complex Quoof<\/a> in manuscript. I still believe that Quoof  is the most significant book in the Muldoon canon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my guilty pleasures is reading the &#8220;Modern Love&#8221; feature in the New York Times Sunday Style section. The pleasure shouldn&#8217;t be that guilty; they have very good writers writing very good and interesting takes on varieties of love in the modern age (or at least the contemporary age). Over and over I see [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amusements","category-general","category-literature","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}