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Paul Muldoon, 59, irländsk poet som bor i USA, framträ-
der ikväll på Rönnells antikvariat i Stockholm.
Det finns endast en diktsamling översatt till svenska:
Att möta britterna. 1991. Övers.: Lars - Håkan Svensson.
2002 fick Muldoon Pulitzerpriset för sin poesi.

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The Sightseers by Paul Muldoon

My father and mother, my brother and sister
and I, with uncle Pat, our dour best-loved uncle,
had set out that Sunday afternoon in July
in his broken-down Ford

not to visit some graveyard—one died of shingles,
one of fever, another's knees turned to jelly—
but the brand-new roundabout at Ballygawley,
the first in mid-Ulster.

Uncle Pat was telling us how the B-Specials
had stopped him one night somewhere near Ballygawley
and smashed his bicycle

and made him sing the Sash and curse the Pope of Rome.
They held a pistol so hard against his forehead
there was still the mark of an O when he got home.