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"A Rooster in Tepoztlán" by Paul Muldoon

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April 1, 2018
 

A Rooster in Tepoztlán

 
Paul Muldoon
Paul Muldoon reads "A Rooster in Tepoztlán."

About This Poem

 

"I have had the pleasure several times of teaching at Under the Volcano, a writing program in the beautiful Mexican town of Tepoztlán. Tepoztlán is known mostly as being the birthplace of Quetzalcoatl and the location for the first version of The Magnificent Seven. This past January, however, I found myself writing about the dogs and roosters in which the town most evidently abounds. At one level, I kept asking myself if the world really needs another rooster poem. Probably not. Even so, here it is."
—Paul Muldoon

 

Paul Muldoon's most recent book is Selected Poems 1968–2014 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016). He is the Howard G.B. Clark Professor at Princeton University, where he has taught for thirty years. He lives in New York City and Sharon Springs, New York.

 

Photo credit: Oliver Morris

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