{"id":80014,"date":"2014-11-24T15:13:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-24T20:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=80014"},"modified":"2014-11-24T17:25:33","modified_gmt":"2014-11-24T22:25:33","slug":"knowing-my-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/24\/knowing-my-place\/","title":{"rendered":"Knowing My Place"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_80016\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/knowingmyplace_paulmuldoon_02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-80016\" class=\"wp-image-80016\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/knowingmyplace_paulmuldoon_02.jpg\" alt=\"KnowingMyPlace_PaulMuldoon_02\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/knowingmyplace_paulmuldoon_02.jpg 5184w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/knowingmyplace_paulmuldoon_02-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/knowingmyplace_paulmuldoon_02-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-80016\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The title page of <i>Knowing My Place<\/i>, annotated by Paul Muldoon. Click to enlarge.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>On December 2, PEN American Center presents \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.christies.com\/features\/FirstEditions_SecondThoughts-5279-1.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">First Editions, Second Thoughts<\/a>,\u201d an auction of seventy-five annotated first editions at Christie\u2019s New York, including work by Philip Roth, Don DeLillo, and Jane Smiley, among others. The proceeds will benefit PEN, a writers\u2019 association dedicated to protecting free expression.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Muldoon\u2019s first chapbook,\u00a0<em>Knowing My Place<\/em>, is one of the books up for auction, and PEN has shared some of Muldoon\u2019s annotations with us. <em>Knowing My Place <\/em>is so hard to come by that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/interviews\/30\/the-art-of-poetry-no-87-paul-muldoon\"><em>The Paris Review<\/em>\u2019s Art of Poetry interview with him<\/a> makes no mention of it; his first full collection, 1973\u2019s\u00a0<em>New Weather<\/em>, is usually considered his first book. He does hint at the circumstances of <em>Knowing My Place<\/em>\u2019s publication, though:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">INTERVIEWER<\/p>\n<p>While you were at Queen\u2019s you joined a very famous writing group, and while still an undergraduate you published your first book, <em>New Weather<\/em>. How did all of this come about? Who had you been showing your work to?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">MULDOON<\/p>\n<p>Ciaran Carson. Frank Ormsby. There were people associated with a particular magazine, <em>The Honest Ulsterman<\/em>. I\u2019d started publishing there when I was a teenager. When I went to Queen\u2019s I was welcomed by Seamus Heaney and Michael Longley into a critical society called the Group, or the Belfast Group, which was the offshoot of the London Group. And our poems were critiqued there by Heaney, Longley, Stewart Parker, and various other luminaries lurking around. So I suppose the stakes were quite high.<\/p>\n<p>One of the things about being eighteen or nineteen or twenty is that one\u2019s daunted by nothing. So on some level I thought to myself, Well, you know, I can do this. That\u2019s why people do almost everything, whatever it might be. Not only, I can do this, but, I can also do it better than this. I have a sense, which I try to give my own students, that it\u2019s possible to write poems that are of a high quality.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Knowing My Place<\/em> was published by Ulsterman Publications, which I can only assume is affiliated with the group mentioned here. It appeared when Muldoon was only nineteen, an undergraduate, in 1971; \u201cthe year decimalisation came in the UK,\u201d his annotation to the title page says. (The pound sterling was subdivided in one hundred pennies where previously it had comprised 240 pence.)<\/p>\n<p>Here are some more of the annotated pages in\u00a0<em>Knowing My Place<\/em>: <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_80017\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/knowingmyplace_paulmuldoon_04.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-80017\" class=\"wp-image-80017\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/knowingmyplace_paulmuldoon_04.jpg\" alt=\"KnowingMyPlace_PaulMuldoon_04\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/knowingmyplace_paulmuldoon_04.jpg 5184w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/knowingmyplace_paulmuldoon_04-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/knowingmyplace_paulmuldoon_04-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-80017\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">On \u201cMacha\u201d: \u201cThis felt quite risqu\u00e9 at the time.\u201d<\/p><\/div><br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_80018\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/knowingmyplace_paulmuldoon_06.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-80018\" class=\"wp-image-80018\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/knowingmyplace_paulmuldoon_06.jpg\" alt=\"KnowingMyPlace_PaulMuldoon_06\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/knowingmyplace_paulmuldoon_06.jpg 5184w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/knowingmyplace_paulmuldoon_06-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/knowingmyplace_paulmuldoon_06-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-80018\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">On \u201cBelfast\u201c: \u201cIt didn\u2019t make the cut when my first book came out.\u201d<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/knowingmyplace_paulmuldoon_10.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-80019\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/knowingmyplace_paulmuldoon_10.jpg\" alt=\"KnowingMyPlace_PaulMuldoon_10\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/knowingmyplace_paulmuldoon_10.jpg 5184w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/knowingmyplace_paulmuldoon_10-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/knowingmyplace_paulmuldoon_10-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On December 2, PEN American Center presents \u201cFirst Editions, Second Thoughts,\u201d an auction of seventy-five annotated first editions at Christie\u2019s New York, including work by Philip Roth, Don DeLillo, and Jane Smiley, among others. The proceeds will benefit PEN, a writers\u2019 association dedicated to protecting free expression. Paul Muldoon\u2019s first chapbook,\u00a0Knowing My Place, is one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2384],"tags":[14661,14660,5312,16168,1120,16169,3684,7221,165,7519],"class_list":["post-80014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-look","tag-annotations","tag-auctions","tag-christies","tag-first-editions-second-thoughts","tag-ireland","tag-knowing-my-place","tag-paul-muldoon","tag-poems","tag-poetry","tag-the-art-of-poetry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Annotations by Paul Muldoon<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"From PEN American Center\u2019s \u201cFirst Editions, Second Thoughts\u201d auction, a selection of 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