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Same Life

(Paperback)


Publishing Details

Full Title:

Same Life

Contributors:

By (Author) Maureen N. Mclane

ISBN:

9780374531881

Publisher:

Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc

Imprint:

Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc

Publication Date:

15th October 2009

Country:

United States

Classifications

Readership:

General

Fiction/Non-fiction:

Non Fiction

Main Subject:
Other Subjects:

Poetry by individual poets

Dewey:

811.6

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Paperback

Number of Pages:

128

Dimensions:

Width 130mm, Height 222mm, Spine 8mm

Weight:

160g

Description

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.

Reviews

"Reading Maureen McLane's Same Life is like discovering Francois Truffaut's first films: this is an exhilarating, brilliant poet whose smart earlier essays prepared the ground. The best poems here are something new in the world, from gorgeous lyrics like 'I wanted to crawl inside a middle voice' or 'Populating Heaven' or 'There is a place in the world' or 'Core Samples' to the nervy pyrotechnics of 'Excursion Susan Sontag.' Luminous fragments--the shattered mirror that everywhere reflects a light-filled ungraspable whole--McLane makes into a new way of possessing the world. This is a thrilling first book." --Frank Bidart

Author Bio

Maureen N. McLane's essays on poetry and contemporary culture have appeared in the Chicago Tribune, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and other major venues. She teaches at New York University.

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