Description
From the alphabet inscribed in our DNA to the stars that once told stories, Same Life maps a cosmos both intricate and vast. In her first full-length book of poems, Maureen N. McLane has written a beautifully sensual and moving work, full of passion and sadness and humor and understanding. Erotically charged lyrics conjure a latter-day Sappho; major sequences explore citizenship and sexuality, landscape and history, moving us from Etruscan ruins to video porn, ushering us through cities, gardens, lakefronts, and airplanes. Here are poems equally alert to shifts in weather and cracks in consciousness; here is a poet equally at home with delicate song and vivid polemic. Same Life evokes an American life in transit, shareable yet singular; singable, ponderable, erotic; an unpredictable venture in twenty-first-century soul-making.
Author: Maureen McLane
Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl
Published: 09/15/2009
Pages: 126
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.00w x 0.40d
ISBN13: 9780374531881
ISBN10: 0374531889
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | American | General
About the Author
Maureen N. McLane's essays on poetry and contemporary culture have appeared in the Chicago Tribune, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and other major venues. She teaches at New York University.