What You Want - Poems. Nominiert: Washington Post Best Books of the Year 2023. Nominiert: Library Journal Best Books of the Year 2023
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| Verlag | Macmillan US |
| Auflage | 2023 |
| Seiten | 128 |
| Format | 14,4 x 21,7 x 1,6 cm |
| With dust jacket | |
| Gewicht | 269 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| EAN | 9780374607258 |
| Bestell-Nr | 37460725EA |
National Book Award finalist Maureen N. McLane stuns with a precise, perceptive book of poetic meditations.
In her first book of poems since the scintillating More Anon: Selected Poems, Maureen N. McLane offers a bravura, trenchant sounding out of inner and outer weathers. What You Want is a book of core landscapes, mindscapes, and shifting moods. Meditative, lyrical, alert to seasons and pressures on our shared life, McLane registers and shapes an ambient unease. Whether skying with John Constable or walking on wintry paths in our precarious republic, the poet channels what Wordsworth called "moods of my own mind" while she scans for our common horizon.
Here are poems filled with gulls and harbors, blinking red lights and empty lobster traps, beach roses and rumored sharks, eels and crows, wind turbines and superhighways. From Sappho to the Luminist painter Fitz Henry Lane, from constellations to microplastics, What You Want is a book alive to the cosmos as wel l as to our moment, with its many vexations and intermittent illuminations.
In poems of powerful command and delicate invitation, moving from swift notations to sustained sequences, this collection sees McLane testing what (if anything) might "outlast the coming heat." And meanwhile, "There's no end / to beauty and shit."
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Named a Best Book of the Year by Library Journal and The Washington Post
"One of our most erudite, witty and sagacious contemporary American poets. Maureen N. McLane's mercurial meditations on extinction, desire, history and art make the first-person feel both "given" and made. With brio and rue, "What You Want" celebrates our slapstick fantasies of addressing one another: "And I sneeze/ into my phone/ which transcribes/ the explosion as 'you.'" -Srikanth Reddy, The Washington Post
"[McLane] pushes on the boundaries of selfhood in her enlightening offering . . . With humor and insight, this points the way toward a more humane and expansive understanding." -Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)