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Maureen N. McLane

Maureen N. McLane

Maureen N. McLane is the author of six books of poetry, two critical monographs on British romantic poetics, an experimental hybrid of memoir and criticism (My Poets), and numerous essays on romantic and contemporary literature and culture. A professor of English at New York University, she is currently not not teaching via Zoom. Her forthcoming book, More Anon: Selected Poems, will be published in 2021 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux. icon

This Is Not an Essay on Poetry of the Past 20 Years

By Maureen N. McLane

I am tired of catalogues and catalogue poems, and of surveys and surveillance—though I appreciate a bird’s-eye view of the terrain as well as anyone.

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