American poet, critic, and professor (born 1967)
Maureen N. McLane (born December 24, 1967) is an American poet , critic , and professor . She received the National Book Critics Circle Award .
Life
McLane was raised in upstate New York . She holds degrees from Harvard University , the University of Oxford (where she was a Rhodes Scholar ), and the University of Chicago .
She is the author of four books of poetry, including This Blue . My Poets (FSG, 2012), a hybrid of memoir and criticism, was a finalist for the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography. McLane is also a contributing editor at Boston Review Grey . She is currently professor of English at New York University .[ 1] [ 2]
Reception and influence
McLane's first full-length poetry collection (Same Life: poems , Farrar, Straus & Giroux , 2008) was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and The Publishing Triangle Audre Lorde Award. It was named as one of the Chicago Tribune Literary Editor's Best Books. Her follow-up book, World Enough: poems (Farrar, Straus & Giroux , 2010), was selected by Paul Muldoon in The New Yorker as a best poetry book of the year.[ 3] My Poets , which Paris Review editor Lorin Stein called "the survey course of my dreams."[ 4] My Poets was lauded in The New York Times , NPR , Bookforum , New York Observer , Boston Globe ,[ 5] [ 6]
Writing in Bookforum , Parul Sehgal remarked that "To read McLane is to be reminded that the brain may be an organ, but the mind is a muscle. Hers is a roving, amphibious intelligence; she's at home in the essay and the fragment, the polemic and the elegy."[ 7]
Awards
Bibliography
Poetry
Collections
McLane, Maureen N. (2008). Same Life: poems . Farrar, Straus & Giroux. McLane, Maureen N. (2010). World Enough: poems . Farrar, Straus & Giroux. McLane, Maureen N. (2014). This Blue: poems . Farrar, Straus & Giroux. McLane, Maureen N. (2016). Mz N: the serial . Farrar, Straus & Giroux. McLane, Maureen N. (2017). Some Say: poems . Farrar, Straus, & Giroux.
McLane, Maureen N. (2019). What I'm Looking For: selected poems 2005-2017 . Penguin.
McLane: Maureen N. (2021). More Anon: Selected Poems. Farrar, Straus, & Giroux.
List of poems
Non-fiction
McLane, Maureen N. (2000). Romanticism and the Human Sciences: Poetry, Population, and the Discourse of the Species . Cambridge University Press. McLane, Maureen N. (2008). Balladeering, Minstrelsy, and the Making of British Romantic Poetry . Cambridge University Press. McLane, Maureen N. (2012). My Poets . Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
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