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Paul Muldoon Critiques Ke$ha’s “Tik Tok”
The New Yorker alerted us to the video above, one in a series from The Princeton Tiger’s “Discussions in Contemporary Poetry.”
“I’ve tried to be trashy.” —Paul Muldoon.
Muldoon is here tomorrow with Don Paterson. Tickets are just $10 for those 35 and under.
Hearing Paul Muldoon say “boys trying to touch my junk, junk” about made my head asplode.
Ke$ha’s song includes a reference to “King Lear,” according to Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and professor. This has made our day.
This is serious business. This is about poetry. A brief comment from our Book Bench editor Macy Halford:
Oh, Paul. We totally think you make it pop.
I just died.
Oh. Oh oh oh.