My Poets by McLane, Maureen N.
My Poets by McLane, Maureen N.

My Poets

A thrillingly original exploration of a life lived under poetry's uniquely seductive spell "Oh! there are spirits...
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Author: Maureen N. McLane
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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My Poets by McLane, Maureen N.

My Poets

$44.00
My Poets by McLane, Maureen N.

My Poets

$44.00
Author: Maureen N. McLane
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description

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 these might be), but those writers who, in possessing her, made her. "I am marking here what most marked me," she writes. Ranging from Chaucer to H.D. to William Carlos Williams to Louise Gl?ck to Shelley (among others), McLane tracks the "growth of a poet's mind," as Wordsworth put it in The Prelude. In poetical prose both probing and incantatory, McLane has written a radical book of experimental criticism. Susan Sontag called for an "erotics of interpretation" this is it. Part Bildung, part dithyramb, part exegesis, My Poets extends an implicit invitation to you, dear reader, to consider who your "my poets," or "my novelists," or "my filmmakers," or "my pop stars," might be.

Author: Maureen N. McLane
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 05/14/2013
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.64lbs
Size: 8.13h x 5.65w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780374533830


Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 06/16/2013 pg. 30

About the Author

Maureen N. McLane is the author of two collections of poetry, Same Life (FSG, 2008) and World Enough (FSG, 2010). My Poets (FSG, 2012) was a finalist for the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography.


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