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Horse Latitudes is tenth collection of poetry
Poetry

Poetry is a form of literature art in which language is used for its aesthetics and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its apparent meaning ....
 from the Northern Irish
Northern Ireland

conventional_long_name = Northern Ireland|native_name= Tuaisceart ?ireannNorlin Airlann|motto =|image_map = Europe location N-IRL2.png...
 poet Paul Muldoon
Paul Muldoon

Paul Muldoon is a Pulitzer Prize-winning poetry from County Armagh, Northern Ireland as well as an educator and academic at Princeton University....
. It was published by Faber and Faber
Faber and Faber

Faber and Faber, often abbreviated to Faber, is an independent publishing house in the UK, notable in particular for publishing a great deal of poetry and for its former editor T....
 on 19th October, 2006.

Its name stems from the areas north and south of the equator in which sailing ships tend to be becalmed, and where sailors traditionally (and possibly apocryphally) threw horses overboard, to lighten the ship and conserve food supplies (see Horse latitudes
Horse latitudes

Horse latitudes or Subtropical High are subtropic latitudes between 30 and 35 degree s both north and south. This region, under a ridge of high pressure called the subtropical high, is an area which receives little precipitation and has variable winds mixed with calm....
). The title was previously employed by Doors singer Jim Morrison
Jim Morrison

James Douglas Morrison was an United States singer, songwriter, poet, writer and film maker. He is best known as the lead singer and lyricist of The Doors and is widely considered to be one of the most charismatic Lead singers in rock music history....
 for a song on the Strange Days
Strange Days

Strange Days is the second album released by American rock band The Doors. The album was a huge commercial success, earning a gold record and reaching No....
 album.

Like many of Muldoon's recent collections, Horse Latitudes contains a long poem – in this case a sonnet sequence ostensibly describing battle scenes through time and place.






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Horse Latitudes is tenth collection of poetry
Poetry

Poetry is a form of literature art in which language is used for its aesthetics and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its apparent meaning ....
 from the Northern Irish
Northern Ireland

conventional_long_name = Northern Ireland|native_name= Tuaisceart ?ireannNorlin Airlann|motto =|image_map = Europe location N-IRL2.png...
 poet Paul Muldoon
Paul Muldoon

Paul Muldoon is a Pulitzer Prize-winning poetry from County Armagh, Northern Ireland as well as an educator and academic at Princeton University....
. It was published by Faber and Faber
Faber and Faber

Faber and Faber, often abbreviated to Faber, is an independent publishing house in the UK, notable in particular for publishing a great deal of poetry and for its former editor T....
 on 19th October, 2006.

Its name stems from the areas north and south of the equator in which sailing ships tend to be becalmed, and where sailors traditionally (and possibly apocryphally) threw horses overboard, to lighten the ship and conserve food supplies (see Horse latitudes
Horse latitudes

Horse latitudes or Subtropical High are subtropic latitudes between 30 and 35 degree s both north and south. This region, under a ridge of high pressure called the subtropical high, is an area which receives little precipitation and has variable winds mixed with calm....
). The title was previously employed by Doors singer Jim Morrison
Jim Morrison

James Douglas Morrison was an United States singer, songwriter, poet, writer and film maker. He is best known as the lead singer and lyricist of The Doors and is widely considered to be one of the most charismatic Lead singers in rock music history....
 for a song on the Strange Days
Strange Days

Strange Days is the second album released by American rock band The Doors. The album was a huge commercial success, earning a gold record and reaching No....
 album.

Like many of Muldoon's recent collections, Horse Latitudes contains a long poem – in this case a sonnet sequence ostensibly describing battle scenes through time and place. The collection also features several other characteristic features of Muldoon's work, such as fixed poetic forms and deft technique combined with a seemingly casual approach full of puns, slant-rhymes
Half rhyme

Half rhyme, sometimes called slant, sprung, near rhyme, oblique rhyme, off rhyme or imperfect rhyme is consonance on the final consonants of the words involved....
 and wordplay.