News at Eleven: In it, he [Paul Muldoon] rhymes "dork" with "Scythian torc";

composes a lengthy ethereal sequence about traveling in Japan and struggling to write the poem that the reader is reading; and, in "Balls," creates poetry's greatest sex joke since Donne's "Loves Progress." The very title, Maggot, suggests myriad understandings: As a noun, the word signifies those off-putting creatures that arise hopefully out of a corpse, the single sign of life among death--but also in the word's verb form, "to fret," a word that can also mean "to gnaw," in the manner of a maggot.

from The New York Observer: Between Robert Frost and Bon Jovi: The Many Contradictions of Paul Muldoon
then The Harvard Crimson: Poet Muldoon Mesmerizes with 'Maggot'
then The New York Times: Excerpt: 'Maggot' (pdf)

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