My poets
1st ed.
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Author
Publication
2012 - Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
68,250 words, Guess
Page Count
273 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivemypoets0000mcla
- Internet Archivemypoets0000mcla_y5r7
- ISBN-139780374217495
- ISBN-100374217491
- Library of Congress Control Number2011041208
and 3 more
- OCLC Control Number758098785
- Better World Books9780374217495
- Open LibraryOL25078362M
Classifications
- DDC811/.6
- DDCB
- LCCPS3613.C5687 Z46 2012
and 1 more
- LCCPS3613.C5687Z46 2012
Description
"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.
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