Bibliograph

My poets, Maureen N. McLane

Type

Label

My poets, Maureen N. McLane

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Index

no index present

Literary Form

poetry

Main title

My poets

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

758098785

Responsibility statement

Maureen N. McLane

Summary

"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 "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

Table Of Contents

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 Glück -- 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

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