{"title":"Maureen N. McLane","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMaureen N. McLane\u003c\/strong\u003e offers a compelling exploration of contemporary poetry and literary criticism, blending personal reflection with intellectual rigor. Her works, such as \u003cem\u003eMy Poetics\u003c\/em\u003e, invite readers to engage deeply with the art of poetry and the nuances of artistic expression.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn addition to profound literary insight, McLane’s writing often navigates themes of desire and human experience, as seen in \u003cem\u003eWhat You Want\u003c\/em\u003e. Readers drawn to thoughtful, lyrical meditations on culture and creativity will find her books richly rewarding.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"what-you-want-by-maureen-n-mclane-9781802063141","title":"What You Want","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe wry, searching new collection by National Book Award finalist Maureen N. McLane, musing on the sea, ageing, love, and the climate crisis.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn her first book of poems since \u003cem\u003eWhat I'm Looking For: Selected Poems 2005-2017\u003c\/em\u003e, Maureen N. McLane offers a bravura collection of perceptive poetic meditations. \u003cem\u003eWhat You Want\u003c\/em\u003e is a book of landscapes, mindscapes, and shifting moods.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHere are poems filled with gulls and harbours, blinking red lights and empty lobster traps, beach roses and rumoured sharks, eels and crows, wind turbines and superhighways. Sensitive, lyrical, and alert to seasons and pressures on our shared life, McLane registers and gives form to an ambient unease. From Sappho to Constable, from constellations to microplastics, \u003cem\u003eWhat You Want\u003c\/em\u003e is a book alive to the cosmos as well as to our moment, with its many vexations and intermittent illuminations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith strong command and delicate invitation, McLane moves from swift notations to powerfully sustained sequences, testing what (if anything) might 'outlast the coming heat'. And meanwhile, 'There’s no end \/ to beauty and shit'.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47083078582508,"sku":"9781802063141","price":39.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/16731503482829.jpg?v=1765280757"},{"product_id":"my-poetics-by-maureen-n-mclane-9780226832647","title":"My Poetics","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAcclaimed poet and critic Maureen N. McLane offers an experimental work of criticism ranging across Romantic and contemporary poetry.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eMy Poetics\u003c\/em\u003e, Maureen N. McLane writes as a poet, critic, theorist, and scholar—but above all as an impassioned reader. Written in an innovative, conversable style, McLane's essays illuminate her own poetics and suggest, more generally, all that poetics can encompass. Ranging widely from romantic-era odes and hymns to anonymous ballads to haikus and haibuns to modernist and contemporary poetries in English, \u003cem\u003eMy Poetics\u003c\/em\u003e explores poems as speculative instruments and as ways of registering our very sense of being alive. McLane pursues a number of open questions: How do poems generate modes for thinking? How does rhyme help us measure out thought? What is the relation of poetry to its surroundings, and how do specific poems activate that relation?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIf, as Wallace Stevens wrote, \"poetry is the scholar's art,\" \u003cem\u003eMy Poetics\u003c\/em\u003e flies under a slightly different banner: study and criticism are also the poet's art. Punctuated with McLane's poems and drawing variously on Hannah Arendt, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Roland Barthes, Bruno Latour, and other writers and poets, \u003cem\u003eMy Poetics\u003c\/em\u003e is a formally as well as intellectually adventurous work. Its artful arrangement of readings and divagations shows us a way to be with poems and poetics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47597287178476,"sku":"9780226832647","price":42.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/539ded806251f9dab6c9ec79bce16975.jpg?v=1777954485"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/collections\/maureen-n-mclane.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}