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I don’t recommend Maureen N. McLane as much as proselytize for her. She’s my favourite living poet … [Her work] bristles with life, feeling, argument – Parul Sehgal * The New York Times Book Review *
Breezy and inviting, but also rich and far-reaching … Many of the poems are so lovely that one notices their phrasing and pacing first, and then their deeper layers … McLane … knows when to dazzle and when to disrupt the reader’s expectations with a risqué or cheeky observation – Elizabeth Lund * Washington Post *
These are poems that keep you on your toes … McLane renders each phrase with the precise and steady hand of an ice sculptor. Her consummate finesse can be a source of delight – Jeff Gordinier * The New York Times Book Review *
Her mix of the humorous and the cerebral is at once exuberant and rinsed with melancholy … It is possible to be carried so far by McLane - by her knowledge, wit, generosity, and musical ear - that one is carried away – Christine Smallwood * Harper’s *
The unstoppable, riverish fever of her enjambed, short-lined poems quickly draws one down through her mind, which is as good a prism as any I know of to encounter the external “effects” of nature, beauty, body … she makes memory, inside poetry, a downright erotic activity. It’s not just the sex of her thought, but the sex of thought itself that breathes through these gorgeous poems – Adam Fitzgerald * Lithub *

Maureen N. McLane was raised in upstate New York before gaining degrees from Harvard University, the University of Oxford, where she was a Rhodes Scholar, and the University of Chicago.

Her books of poetry include:

• Same Life (2008)
• World Enough (2010)
• This Blue (2014)
• Mz N: the serial (2016)
• Some Say (2017)

My Poets, a hybrid of memoir and criticism, was a finalist for the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography.

McLane is Professor of English at New York University.

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