A dazzling collection of poems exploring the mental landscape of our moment Maureen N.
Mc Lane's Some Say revolves around a dazzling old sun.
Here are poems on sex and death; here are poems testing the bankrupt idea / of nature.
Some Say offers an erotics of attention; a mind roaming, registering, and intermittently blocked; a mortal poet going nowhere fast but where / we're all going.
From smartphones to dead gods to the beloved's body, Some Say charts the weather of an old day / suckerpunched into the now.
Following on her bravura Mz N: the serial: A Poem-in-Episodes, Mc Lane bends lyric to the torque of our moment--and of any moment under the given sun.
Some Say encompasses full-barreled odes and austere lines, whiplashing discourse and minimal notations.
In her fifth book of poems, Mc Lane continues her songs of a season even as she responds to new vibrations--political, geological, transpersonal, trans-specific.
Moving through forests and cities, up mountains, across oceans, toward a common interior, she sounds out the ecological mesh of the animate and inanimate.
These are poems that make tracks in our unmarked dark as the poet explores a cosmos full / of people and black holes.
From its troubled, exhilarated dawns to its scanned night sky, Some Say is both a furthering and a summation by a poet scouring and singing the world full // as it always was / of wings / of meaning and nothing.
About the Author: Maureen N.
Mc Lane is the author of such poetry books as Mz N: the serial: A Poem-in-Episodes (FSG, 2016) and the 2014 National Book Award finalist This Blue (FSG, 2014).
Her book My Poets (FSG, 2012), a hybrid of memoir and criticism, was a finalist for the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography.
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