My Poets

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, Poetry History & Criticism, Biography & Memoir, Literary
Cover of the book My Poets by Maureen N. McLane, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Maureen N. McLane ISBN: 9781466875050
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Publication: July 1, 2014
Imprint: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Language: English
Author: Maureen N. McLane
ISBN: 9781466875050
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication: July 1, 2014
Imprint: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Language: English

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 in My Poets 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 a 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.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

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 in My Poets 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 a 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.

More books from Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Cover of the book Trance by Maureen N. McLane
Cover of the book The Runaway Dragon by Maureen N. McLane
Cover of the book Saturday Night Dirt by Maureen N. McLane
Cover of the book Banana Republican by Maureen N. McLane
Cover of the book The Professor of Desire by Maureen N. McLane
Cover of the book On Leave by Maureen N. McLane
Cover of the book The Life of the Skies by Maureen N. McLane
Cover of the book Mysteries of the Mall by Maureen N. McLane
Cover of the book Clash of Extremes by Maureen N. McLane
Cover of the book Children of the Future by Maureen N. McLane
Cover of the book No Man's Land by Maureen N. McLane
Cover of the book A Week of Mondays: Chapters 1-9 by Maureen N. McLane
Cover of the book Tim's Goodbye by Maureen N. McLane
Cover of the book The Lost Child by Maureen N. McLane
Cover of the book Spare Parts by Maureen N. McLane
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy