Same Life
McLane, Maureen N.
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BOOK SYNOPSIS
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 BIO
Maureen N. McLanes essays on poetry and contemporary culture have appeared in the Chicago Tribune, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and other major venues. She is a lecturer in history and literature at Harvard.
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0374165335
ISBN(13-digit): 9780374165338
Dewey Decimal: 811/.6
Library of Congress: 2007047957
Book Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 109
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