Some Say: Poems

A dazzling collection of poems exploring the mental landscape of our moment Maureen N. McLaneÆs Some Say revolves around a dazzling ôold sun.ö Here are poems on sex and death; here are poems testing the ôbankrupt idea / of nature.ö Some Say offers an erotics of attention; a mind roaming, registering, and intermittently blocked; a mortal poet going ônowhere fast but where / weÆre all going.ö From smartphones to dead gods to the belovedÆs body, Some Say charts ôthe weather of an old day / suckerpunchedö into the now. Following on her bravura Mz N: the serial: A Poem-in-Episodes, McLane bends lyric to the torque of our momentùand of any moment under the given sun. Some Say encompasses full-barreled odes and austere lines, whiplashing discourse and minimal notations. In her fifth book of poems, McLane continues her ôsongs of a seasonö even as she responds to new vibrationsùpolitical, geological, transpersonal, trans-specific. Moving through forests and cities, up mountains, across oceans, toward a common interior, she sounds out the ecological mesh of the animate and inanimate. These are poems that make tracks in our ôunmarked darkö as the poet explores ôa cosmos full / of people and black holes.ö From its troubled, exhilarated dawns to its scanned night sky, Some Say is both a furthering and a summation by a poet scouring and singing the world ôfull // as it always was / of wings / of meaning and nothing.ö

Author: Maureen N. McLane

Publisher: Farrar, Straus And Giroux

Publication Date: Jul 24, 2018

Number of Pages: 144 pages

Language: English

Binding: Paperback/Poetry

ISBN-10: 0374537720

ISBN-13: 9780374537722