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Paul Muldoon is a Princeton professor and chair of Princeton’s Lewis Center for the Arts, a writer of criticism, libretti, plays, and children’s books, translator from the Gaelic, leader of a rock band called Rackett, and poetry editor of The New Yorker. His latest book is Maggot.