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This blue : poems / Maureen N. McLane.

by McLane, Maureen N.

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014.

American poetry -- Women authors.

American poetry -- 21st century.

9780374275938 (hc.)

0374275939 (hc.)

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107 pages ; 22 cm

I. A situation -- What I'm looking for -- Aviary -- OK fern -- Best laid -- Late hour -- All good -- Another day in this here cosmos -- Summer beer with endangered glacier -- II. What's the matter -- Incarnation -- Tell us what happened after we left -- That man -- Even those -- Lunch with mountain -- They were not kidding in the fourteenth century -- Morning vanitas -- Morning with adirondack chair -- Glacial erratic -- Road/here now -- III. Today's comedy -- Mezzo -- Genda -- San Fruttuoso global -- Drink with mountain, remembered, andalucían -- Inscription -- To one in Parma -- Levanto -- IV. Terran life -- Embroidered earth -- Ice people, sun people -- Belfast -- Debatable land -- Things of August -- Replay/repeat -- Broadband -- Western -- V. Horoscope -- Moss Lake -- Skywatch -- Quiet car -- Song -- Her summermindedness -- Local habitation -- The fact of a meadow -- Märchen -- Elsewhere -- Enough with the swan song -- Envoi.

From lichens to malls to merchant republics, it's "another day in this here cosmos," in Maureen N. McLane’s third poetry collection, This Blue. Here are songs for and of a new century, poems both archaic and wholly now. In the middle of life, stationed in our common "Terran Life," the poet conjures urban pigeons, Adirondack mountains, Genoa, Andalucía, Belfast, Parma; here is a world sounded out, broken, possibly shareable, newly named: "Take it up Old Adam / everyday the world exists / to be named." This Blue is a searching and a singing -- intricate, sexy, smart. Maureen N. McLane grew up in upstate New York and was educated at Harvard, Oxford, and the University of Chicago. She is the author of two collections of poetry, Same Life (2008) and World Enough (2010). Her book My Poets (2012) is a hybrid of memoir and criticism.

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