Maureen N. McLane, Author . Farrar, Straus & Giroux $22 (109p) ISBN 978-0-374-16533-8
McLane (who teaches at Harvard) has built up a national reputation as a critic and reviewer, and this debut showcases a poet who is always clear if sometimes terse or challenging, often allusive, yet open about her own life, McLane’s spare...
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Maureen N. McLane, Author . Farrar, Straus & Giroux $25 (131p) ISBN 978-0-374-29295-9
McLane is a professor of English at NYU, a prolific book critic and specialist in British romanticism. Her academic proclivities are readily apparent in her second collection: “what is called thinking/ is obsessing” she writes, echoing...
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Maureen N. McLane. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $25 (240p) ISBN 978-0-374-21749-5
This is no layman’s guide to poetry. In this unusual book that can only be described as a love song—written in a jumpy yet satisfying mixture of prose criticism, memoir, anecdote, and imitative verse written in tribute—McLane, herself a poet and...
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Maureen N. McLane. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $24 (112p) ISBN 978-0-374-27593-8
Beginning in a garden with “a chair,/ a table, grass,” and ending in the “wild way” of the woods, McLane’s latest poetry collection (after World Enough) is a progressive push into the unknown. Her consistency of voice, an amalgam of neoformal rhyme...
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Maureen N. McLane. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $24 (144p) ISBN 978-0-374-26658-5
Simultaneously exhausted by the conventions of nature poetry and energized by nature’s mutability, McLane (Mz N: The Serial) adopts a stance in her latest collection that could seem pessimistic were it not for her desire to keep moving. Several...
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