Ebook {Epub PDF} My Poets by Maureen N. McLane

Maureen N. McLane grew up in upstate New York and was educated at Harvard University, Oxford University, and the University of Chicago. She is the author of five books of poetry: Some Say (FSG, ), Mz N: the serial: a poem-in-episodes (FSG, ), This Blue (FSG, —Finalist for the National Book Award in Poetry), World Enough (FSG, ), and Same Life (FSG, ), as well as the . Most days they lie and dream among the harps. They suffice for themselves, neither giving nor receiving. See how they wither in the momentary glance, turn to dust on the steps we climbed to get here. From Same Life by Maureen McLane. Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC. my poets maureen n mclane My Poets 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.

by Elisabeth Watson The single "illustration" in Maureen N. McLane's book, My Poets, (Farrar, Straus, Giroux, ) is a reproduction of page from her undergraduate Norton Anthology of English Literature: Frank O'Hara's "The Day Lady Died", surrounded by a college freshman's cloud of marginalia, or as McLane calls it, "a series of failed attempts, graspings, and. Maureen N. McLane studied at Harvard University, the University of Oxford, and the University of Chicago, where she received a PhD in English in McLane has previously taught at Harvard University, MIT, and the East Harlem Poetry Project, and she served on the board of the National Book Critics. Maureen N. McLane is a poet, memoirist, critic, and educator. Raised in upstate New York, she holds degrees from Harvard, Oxford, and the University of Chicago. She has published seven books of poetry: Same Life (FSG, ), Finalist for the Audre Lorde/Publishing Triangle Award; World Enough (FSG, ); This Blue (FSG, ), Finalist for the National Book Award in Poetry; Mz N: the serial.

My Poets. by. Maureen N. McLane. · Rating details · ratings · 36 reviews. 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. Maureen N. McLane grew up in upstate New York and was educated at Harvard University, Oxford University, and the University of Chicago. She is the author of five books of poetry: Some Say (FSG, ), Mz N: the serial: a poem-in-episodes (FSG, ), This Blue (FSG, —Finalist for the National Book Award in Poetry), World Enough (FSG, ), and Same Life (FSG, ), as well as the poetry chapbook, This Carrying Life (Pressed Wafer/Arrowsmith, ). “Maureen N. McLane's My Poets is a strange, provocative hybrid of criticism, memoir and poetry in many ways strikingly original, My Poets charts the genesis of McLane's development as a reader and writer, from the baffled Harvard undergraduate encountering Charles Olson and Frank O'Hara for the first time (she bravely offers us her youthful marginalia to the "The Day Lady Died") to her current position as a poet and critic of great sensitivity and sophistication Often McLane.