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Mz N: the serial: A Poem-in-Episodes Kindle Edition

by Maureen N. McLane (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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The acclaimed poet, memoirist, and essayist Maureen N. McLane here charts a new path into vital genre-bending territories. Not a novel, not a memoir, not a lyric, Mz N: the serial: A Poem-in-Episodes offers something else—“life . . . a continual allegory” (to invoke Keats): a life intense, episodic, female, sexual, philosophical, romantic, analytic. Tracking the growth of one poet’s mind, switchbacking its way through American English, Mz N toggles between story and song. This is a poetry both “furious / & alive.”

Alive to the lash of love, the longueurs of adolescence, the limits of identity, Mz N: the serial: A Poem-in-Episodes is a bravura experiment in life-writing—an assaying, a testing, a transforming, an honoring of the tentative and the torqued. What is it to be contemporary, to be “one / among other ones” in a “cracking world”? How does a body vibrate into being? How is a mind made out of other minds? Seizing the queer realities of any life, Mz N explores how one is surprised, seduced, and struck into speech, thought, song, silence. “Then, what is life?” cried Shelley. So too Mz N.

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  1. Print length
    129 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  4. Publication date
    June 4, 2024
  5. File size
    2.6 MB
  6. Page Flip
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  7. Word Wise
    Not Enabled
  8. Enhanced typesetting
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"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. Her speaker (and pseudo-doppelgänger protagonist) have ideas about Athens and “Death metal,” often interchangeably. What’s so truly essential in her somersaulting, backwards/forwards time machine is the way 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

"I don't recommend Maureen N. McLane as much as proselytize for her. She's my favorite living poet, and MzN: the Serial is her best book yet. It bristles with life, feeling, argument; it's sexy and cerebral and romantic and―somewhat surprisingly for a book of poetry―a bit of a page-turner." ―Parul Seghal, New York Times Book Review

About the Author

Maureen N. McLane is the author of several 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.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01770M7VK
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Farrar, Straus and Giroux (June 4, 2024)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ June 4, 2024
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 2.6 MB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 129 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
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  • John Sandercock
    5.0 out of 5 stars A "page-turner"
    Reviewed in the United States on September 14, 2017
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    I had read that the book was a "page-turner", and it was. I read it twice, and could happily read it again.
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  • Amazon Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars A truly strong and idiosyncratic collection
    Reviewed in the United States on August 29, 2016
    What an amazing, energetic, interesting book this is! How sad that it seems hardly to have been commented on here. It's an unusual volume with consummate craft and elegant dance steps of language and mind. I found it --how often does one feel this?--a page turner. I don't mean by that a matter of plot. But the voice of these poems gripped me and made me want to keep reading.
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