Alonso further strengthens his study with a thorough examination of the Muldoon Papers at Emory University; the drafts and notebooks in this collection offer deeper insights into the poet's creative process and what Alonso calls Muldoon's restless poetic imagination. This provocative study of Muldoon's American period offers invaluable new approaches to his work and asks readers to question larger themes of immigration, homeland, and belonging.
Alex Alonso is Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellow at Trinity College Dublin. He completed his doctoral thesis at the University of York in 2017. He has essays published or forthcoming in Essays in Criticism, Victorian Poetry, and A Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Literature (Wiley-Blackwell), and is the British Poetry Post-1950 reviewer for The Year's Work in English Studies. He was editor of the York-based poetry
magazine Eborakon in 2016.