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Why Brownlee Left

    by Paul Muldoon Why Brownlee Left

Why Brownlee Left, first published when Paul Muldoon was 29 years old, helped introduce the young poet to American readers. Many books later, the Pulitzer Prize winning poet is one of the most recognized names in contemporary poetry.

Why Brownlee Left

Why Brownlee left, and where he went,
Is a mystery even now.
For if a man should have been content
It was him; two acres of barley,
One of potatoes, four bullocks,
A milker, a slated farmhouse.
He was last seen going out to plough
On a March morning, bright and early.

By noon Brownlee was famous;
They had found all abandoned, with
The last rig unbroken, his pair of black
Horses, like man and wife,
Shifting their weight from foot to
Foot, and gazing into the future.



48 pages

1980

$75 paperback (American edition, third printing)
ISBN 0-916390-13-6
ISBN13 978-0-916390-13-6

$55 paperback (First American edition, blank white cover, no wrapped jacket, new pristine condition)
ISBN 0-916390-13-6
ISBN13 978-0-916390-13-6

$45 paperback (1998 third printing, image on cover, no jacket, colored endsheets, new pristine condition)
ISBN 0-916390-13-6
ISBN13 978-0-916390-13-6

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