The Great Horse of the World -- Encheiresin Naturae a Memphis -- Pablo Picasso: Bottle of Bass and Glass (1914) -- Georges Braque: Still Life with Bottle of Bass (1914) -- The Leader -- In the Field with Mangas Coloradas -- Corncrake and Curlew -- Belfast Hymn -- Walnuts -- The Ambulance -- 1916: The Eoghan Rua Variations -- Avalon -- July 1, 1916: With the Ulster Division -- Wilfred Owen: November 4, 1918 -- Armistice Day -- Edward Elgar: Cello Concerto in E Minor (1919) -- At Tuam -- Likely to Go Unnoticed -- Robert Lowell at Castletown House -- April in New Hope -- A Chickadee in Riverside Park -- The Door -- With Eilmer of Malmesbury -- Plume -- Hunting with Eagles, Western Mongolia, 2016 -- A Tortoise -- Aubade -- Wave -- Superior Aloeswood -- At the River -- It Wasn't Meant to Be Like This -- Position Paper -- A Rooster in Tepoztlan -- Sodus -- With Joseph Brant in Canajoharie -- Putsch -- Frolic and Detour.

"Although 'Frolic and Detour' is Paul Muldoon's thirteenth book, it has all the passion and provocation we more often associate with a first collection. Ranging as it does from poems that take as their subject matter the Native American leaders Joseph Brant and Mangas Coloradas, through the Great War, the Irish Rising, hunting with eagles, the house wren, all the way to the day-to-day assault of twenty-first century America, 'Frolic and Detour' reminds us that the sidelong glance is the sweetest, the tangential approach the most telling"-- Provided by publisher.