More Anon

Selected Poems

More Anon
Maureen N Mclane
RRP:
NZ$ 37.99
Our Price:
NZ$ 30.39
Paperback
h221 x 141mm - 224pg
19 Jul 2022 US
International import eta 7-19 days
9780374606459
Out Of Stock
Currently no stock in-store, stock is sourced to your order
More Anon gathers a selection of poems from Maureen N. McLane' s critically acclaimed first five books of poetry. McLane, whose 2014 collection This Blue was a finalist for the National Book Award, is a poet of wit and play, of romanticism and intellect, of song and polemic. More Anon presents her work anew. The poems spark with life, and the concentrated selection showcases her energy and style. As Parul Sehgal wrote in Bookforum, "To read McLane is to be reminded that the brain may be an organ, but the mind is a muscle. Hers is a roving, amphibious intelligence; she' s at home in the essay and the fragment, the polemic and the elegy. " In More Anon, McLane-a poet, scholar, and prizewinning critic-displays the full range of her vertiginous mind and daring experimentation.
This collection shines with a wonderful mix of irreverence and profundity. --Publishers WeeklyPoet and critic James Longenbach has described a certain kind of poem that ' makes us hear [it] as an ongoing act of thinking, a bringing forth. ' Maureen McLane' s poems achieve this bringing-forth, showing the mind (and the body, since for McLane the two can' t be separated) as ' an irresistible humming vibrating' thing, ' all present-tense, ' ' a congeries / of possibles' . . . [McLane' s] poems are learned but they' re also fun, sometimes goofy, and they' re always moving, moving, moving. --Anthony Domestico, CommonwealReprinting around a third of her previously published poetry, More Anon may be ' rigorously pruned, ' but its contents are so various, no mere bouquet but a botanical garden, that you might reasonably wonder how it all came from just one poet. --Christopher Spaide, The Sewanee ReviewMore Anon dazzles for the fineness of McLane' s formal precision, her searching intellectualism, and her commitment to ethical questioning and growth. She theorizes her sense of identity as ongoing, as never not emergent, as the shifting sum of a set of possible performances. ' There are many questions I have been brought to pose to myself, ' she writes in a recent essay on contemporary poetics. --Gillian White, PoetryMcLane' s poems are about as social and intelligent as they come . . . McLane has already gathered her sticks, now she sharpens them. This proves a conclusive asset; there is nothing like her in American poetry. --Spencer Hupp, The Cortland Review
Maureen N. McLane is the author of five previous books of poetry, including Some Say; Mz N: the serial: A Poem-in-Episodes; and the 2014 National Book Award finalist This Blue. Her book My Poets, a hybrid of memoir and criticism, was a finalist for the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9780374606459
Published: 19 Jul 2022
Published In: United States
Imprint: Farrar Straus Giroux
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
Format: Paperback
Height: 221mm
Width: 141mm
Weight: 300g
Pages: 224

In stock - for items in stock we aim to dispatch the next business day. For delivery in NZ allow 2-5 business days, with rural taking a wee bit longer.

Locally sourced in NZ - stock comes from a NZ supplier with an approximate delivery of 7-15 business days.

International Imports - stock is imported into NZ, depending on air or sea shipping option from the international supplier stock can take 10-30 working days to arrive into NZ. 

Pre-order Titles - delivery will vary depending on where the title is published, if local stock is available in NZ then 5-7 business days, for international imports it can be 10-30 business days. In all cases we will access the quickest supply option.

Delivery Packaging - we ship all items in cardboard sleeves or by box with either packing paper or corn starch chips. (We avoid using plastics bubble bags)

Tracking - Orders are delivered by track and trace courier and are fully insured, tracking information will be sent by email once dispatched.

View our full Order & Delivery information