My Poets

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Synopsis
A thrillingly original exploration of a life lived under poetry's uniquely seductive spell"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 Glück 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.
Copyright:
1983

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
288 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781466875050
Related ISBNs:
9780374217495
Publisher:
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
Alice Helen Methfessel. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC.
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Poetry, Biographies and Memoirs, Literature and Fiction, Language Arts
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Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.

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