My Poets

Name: My Poets
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ISBN: 9780374533830

ISBN-10: 0374533830

ISBN-13: 9780374533830

Edition: 2013

Authors: Maureen N. McLane

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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 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 Gluck to Shelley (among others), McLane tracks the…

Book details

List price: $16.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 5/14/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

Maureen N. McLane’s essays on poetry and contemporary culture have appeared in theChicago Tribune,The New York Times,The Washington Post, and other major venues. She teaches at New York University.




Proem in the Form of A Q&A



My Chaucer/Kankedort



My Impasses: On Not Being Able to Read Poetry



My Elizabeth Bishop/(My Gertrude Stein)



My Wallace Stevens



My William Carlos Williams



My Marianne Moore



My H.D.



My Translated: An Abecedary



My Louise Glï¿½ck



My Fanny Howe



My Poets I: An Interlude in the Form of a Cento



My Emily Dickinson/My Emily Dickinson



My Shelley/(My Romantics)



My Poets II: An Envoi in the Form of a Cento


Works Consulted or Remembered and Further Reading


My Acknowledgments