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, Adirondack mountains, Genoa, Andalucía, Belfast, Parma, here is a world sounded out, broken, possibly shareable, newly named: "Take it up Old Adam- / everyday the world exists / to be named." This Blue is a searching and a singing-intricate, sexy, smart.