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| | A poke in the eye with a poem | By genre | Guardian Unlimited Books |
 | | This information, the sort of thing Muldoon is happy to tell an audience at a reading, is useful to the reader on the page, because these battles-beginning-with-B, in which horses or mules played a major role, are not all going to be very familiar (at least, they weren't to me). |
 | | Death is the theme - the death of loved ones, the death of horses and mules, deaths on the battlefield, death from cancer. |
 | | The "horse latitudes" of the title are defined on the flyleaf as designating "an area north and south of the equator in which ships tend to be becalmed, in which stasis if not stagnation is the order of the day, and where sailors traditionally threw horses overboard to conserve food and water". |
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