My Poets by Maureen N McLane

My Poets

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My Poets

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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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 Glück 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.
Book Details
Publisher:
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN:
9780374533830
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
288
Authors:
Maureen N McLane
Published Date:
2013-05-14
Language:
English
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About Maureen N. McLane

A professor of English at New York University, Maureen N. McLane studied at Harvard University, the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, and the University of Chicago, where she earned a PhD. Her collection This Blue (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014) was a finalist for the National Book Award. Other books include Same Life (FSG, 2008), Mz N: the serial (FSG, 2016), and the hybrid memoir-criticism My Poets (FSG, 2012), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She also writes on British Romanticism and the history of English poetry.

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