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National Book Award finalist Maureen N. McLane stuns with a precise, perceptive book of poetic meditations.In her first book of poems since the scintillating More Anon: Selected Poems, Maureen N. McLane offers a bravura, trenchant sounding out of inner and outer weathers. What You Want is a book of core landscapes, mindscapes, and shifting moods. Meditative, lyrical, alert to seasons and pressures on our shared life, McLane registers and shape...

Acclaimed poet and critic Maureen N. McLane offers an experimental work of criticism ranging across Romantic and contemporary poetry. In My Poetics, Maureen N. McLane writes as a poet, critic, theorist, and scholar--but above all as an impassioned reader. Written in an innovative, conversable style, McLane's essays illuminate her own poetics and suggest more generally all that poetics can encompass. Ranging widely from romantic-era odes and hy...

Acclaimed poet and critic Maureen N. McLane offers an experimental work of criticism ranging across Romantic and contemporary poetry. In My Poetics, Maureen N. McLane writes as a poet, critic, theorist, and scholar--but above all as an impassioned reader. Written in an innovative, conversable style, McLane's essays illuminate her own poetics and suggest more generally all that poetics can encompass. Ranging widely from romantic-era odes and hy...

National Book Award finalist Maureen N. McLane stuns with a precise, perceptive book of poetic meditations.In her first book of poems since the scintillating More Anon: Selected Poems, Maureen N. McLane offers a bravura, trenchant sounding out of inner and outer weathers. What You Want is a book of core landscapes, mindscapes, and shifting moods. Meditative, lyrical, alert to seasons and pressures on our shared life, McLane registers and shape...

In her first book of poems since the scintillating What I'm Looking For: Selected Poems 2005-2017, Maureen N. McLane offers a bravura, trenchant sounding out of inner and outer weathers. What You Want is a book of core landscapes, mindscapes, and shifting moods. Meditative, lyrical, alert to seasons and pressures on our shared life, McLane registers and shapes an ambient unease. Whether skying with John Constable or walking on wintry paths, th...

More Anon gathers a selection of poems from Maureen N. McLane's critically acclaimed first five books of poetry.McLane, whose 2014 collection This Blue was a finalist for the National Book Award, is a poet of wit and play, of romanticism and intellect, of song and polemic. More Anon presents her work anew. The poems spark with life, and the concentrated selection showcases her energy and style.As Parul Sehgal wrote in Bookforum, "To read McLan...

Selected poems of Maureen N. McLaneMore Anon gathers a selection of poems from Maureen N. McLane's critically acclaimed first five books of poetry.McLane, whose 2014 collection This Blue was a finalist for the National Book Award, is a poet of wit and play, of romanticism and intellect, of song and polemic. More Anon presents her work anew. The poems spark with life, and the concentrated selection showcases her energy and style.As Parul Seghal...

Maureen N. McLane was raised in upstate New York before gaining degrees from Harvard University, the University of Oxford, where she was a Rhodes Scholar, and the University of Chicago. Her books of poetry are Same Life (2008), World Enough (2010), This Blue (2014), Mz N: the serial (2016) and Some Say (2017). My Poets, a hybrid of memoir and criticism, was a finalist for the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography. McLane is...

A dazzling collection of poems exploring the mental landscape of our momentMaureen N. McLane's Some Say revolves around a dazzling "old sun." Here are poems on sex and death, here are poems testing the "bankrupt idea / of nature." Some Say offers an erotics of attention, a mind roaming, registering, and intermittently blocked, a mortal poet going "nowhere fast but where / we're all going." From smartphones to dead gods to the beloved's body, S...

A thrillingly original exploration of a life lived under poetry's uniquely seductive spell"Oh! there are spirits of the air, " wrote Percy Bysshe Shelley. In this stunningly original book, Maureen N. McLane channels the spirits and voices that make up the music in one poet's mind. Weaving criticism and memoir, My Poets explores a life reading and a life read. McLane invokes not necessarily the best poets, nor the most important poets (whoever ...

National Book Award finalistA vital, exhilarating new collection of poems from the National Book Critics Circle nomineeFrom lichens to malls to merchant republics, it's "another day in this here cosmos, " in Maureen N. McLane's stunning third poetry collection, This Blue. Here are songs for and of a new century, poems both archaic and wholly now. In the middle of life, stationed in our common "Terran Life, " the poet conjures urban pigeons, Ad...

This text shows how Romantic poetry was powerfully shaped by oral modes of poetic construction.

Channels the spirits and voices that make up the music in one poet's mind. This title invokes not necessarily the best poets, nor the most important poets (whoever these might be), but those writers who, in possessing the author, made her.

The acclaimed poet, memoirist, and essayist Maureen N. McLane here charts a new path into vital genre-bending territories. Not a verse novel, not a verse memoir, Mz N: the serial: A Poem-in-Episodes offers something else--"life . . . a continual allegory" (to invoke Keats): a life intense, episodic, female, sexual, philosophical, romantic, analytic. Tracking the growth of one poet's mind, switchbacking its way through American English, Mz N to...

A dazzling collection of poems exploring the mental landscape of our momentMaureen N. McLane's Some Say revolves around a dazzling "old sun." Here are poems on sex and death, here are poems testing the "bankrupt idea / of nature." Some Say offers an erotics of attention, a mind roaming, registering, and intermittently blocked, a mortal poet going "nowhere fast but where / we're all going." From smartphones to dead gods to the beloved's body, S...

National Book Award FinalistA vital, exhilarating new collection of poems from the National Book Critics Circle nominee From lichens to malls to merchant republics, it's "another day in this here cosmos, " in Maureen N. McLane's stunning third poetry collection, This Blue. Here are songs for and of a new century, poems both archaic and wholly now. In the middle of life, stationed in our common "Terran Life, " the poet conjures urban pigeons, A...

The acclaimed poet, memoirist, and essayist Maureen N. McLane here charts a new path into vital genre-bending territories. Not a verse novel, not a verse memoir, Mz N: the serial: A Poem-in-Episodes offers something else--"life . . . a continual allegory" (to invoke Keats): a life intense, episodic, female, sexual, philosophical, romantic, analytic. Tracking the growth of one poet's mind, switchbacking its way through American English, Mz N to...

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This 2008 text shows how Romantic poetry was powerfully shaped by oral modes of poetic construction.

From the alphabet inscribed in our DNA to the stars that once told stories, "Same Life "maps a cosmos both intricate and vast. In her first full-length book of poems, Maureen N. McLane has written a beautifully sensual and moving work, full of passion and sadness and humor and understanding. Erotically charged lyrics conjure a latter-day Sappho, major sequences explore citizenship and sexuality, landscape and history, moving us from Etruscan r...