Maureen N. McLane
{{short description|American poet, critic, and professor (born 1967)}}
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Maureen N. McLane (born December 24, 1967) is an American poet, critic, and professor. She received the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Life
McLane was raised in upstate New York. She holds degrees from Harvard University, the University of Oxford (where she was a Rhodes Scholar), and the University of Chicago.
She is the author of four books of poetry, including This Blue. My Poets (FSG, 2012), a hybrid of memoir and criticism, was a finalist for the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography. McLane is also a contributing editor at Boston Review and poetry editor at Grey. She is currently professor of English at New York University.[http://as.nyu.edu/english/directory.maureen-mclane.html Maureen McLane, Faculty of English | NYU][http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/maureen-n-mclane Maureen N. McLane : The Poetry Foundation]
Reception and influence
McLane's first full-length poetry collection (Same Life: poems, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2008) was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and The Publishing Triangle Audre Lorde Award. It was named as one of the Chicago Tribune Literary Editor's Best Books. Her follow-up book, World Enough: poems (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2010), was selected by Paul Muldoon in The New Yorker as a best poetry book of the year.[http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2010/12/ten-great-poetry-collections-of-2010-1.html Ten Great Poetry Collections of 2010 : The New Yorker]
McLane achieved literary celebrity with the publication of her hybrid criticism-biography My Poets, which Paris Review editor Lorin Stein called "the survey course of my dreams."[http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2012/04/06/staff-picks-tea-cakes-and-putin-and-vets-oh-my/ Paris Review – Staff Picks: Tea Cakes and Putin and Vets, Oh My!, The Paris Review] My Poets was lauded in The New York Times, NPR, Bookforum, New York Observer, Boston Globe,{{Cite news|last=Brodeur|first=Michael Andor|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91148829/michael-andor-brodeur-how-does-a-poem/|title=How does a poem mean?|date=June 24, 2012|work=The Boston Globe|access-date=December 25, 2021|page=K5|via=Newspapers.com}} and elsewhere for its groundbreaking hybridity.[http://bostonreview.net/poetry/her-poets Her Poets | Boston Review]
Writing in Bookforum, Parul Sehgal remarked that "To read McLane is to be reminded that the brain may be an organ, but the mind is a muscle. Hers is a roving, amphibious intelligence; she's at home in the essay and the fragment, the polemic and the elegy."{{cite news|first=Parul|last=Sehgal|title=The Body Electric|url=https://www.bookforum.com/print/1902/-9498|access-date=December 25, 2021|magazine=Bookforum|date=June 2012}}
Awards
- National Book Critics Circle 2012 Finalist in Autobiography
- [https://www.jamesmerrillhouse.org/fellows James Merrill House] Fellowship in 2023
- Golden Dozen Award, New York University College of Arts and Sciences Teaching Award, 2012
- New York University Humanities Institute, Faculty Award for Publishing the Most Books in 2008
- Harvard University Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, Committee on Undergraduate Education, 2006
- John Clive Teaching Award in History and Literature, Harvard University, 2005
- National Book Critics Circle Nona Balakian Award for Excellence in Book Reviewing, 2003
Bibliography
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=Poetry=
==Collections==
- {{cite book |last=McLane |first=Maureen N. |title=Same Life: poems |publisher=Farrar, Straus & Giroux |year=2008}}
- {{cite book |last=McLane |first=Maureen N. |title=World Enough: poems |publisher=Farrar, Straus & Giroux |year=2010}}
- {{cite book |last=McLane |first=Maureen N. |title=This Blue: poems |publisher=Farrar, Straus & Giroux |year=2014}}
- {{cite book |last=McLane |first=Maureen N. |title=Mz N: the serial|publisher=Farrar, Straus & Giroux |year=2016}}
- McLane, Maureen N. (2017). Some Say: poems. Farrar, Straus, & Giroux.
- McLane, Maureen N. (2019). What I'm Looking For: selected poems 2005-2017. Penguin.
- McLane: Maureen N. (2021). More Anon: Selected Poems. Farrar, Straus, & Giroux.
== List of poems ==
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!|Year !|First published !|Reprinted/collected |
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| Taking a walk in the woods after having taken a walk in the woods with you
|2013 |{{cite magazine |last=McLane |first=Maureen N. |date=February 25, 2013 |title=Taking a walk in the woods after having taken a walk in the woods with you |magazine=The New Yorker |volume=89 |issue=2 |pages=52 |url=http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/02/25/taking-a-walk-in-the-woods-after-having-taken-a-walk-in-the-woods-with-you |access-date=2015-05-02}} | |
=Non-fiction=
- {{cite book |last=McLane |first=Maureen N. |title=Romanticism and the Human Sciences: Poetry, Population, and the Discourse of the Species |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2000}}
- {{cite book |last=McLane |first=Maureen N. |title=Balladeering, Minstrelsy, and the Making of British Romantic Poetry |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2008}}
- {{cite book |last=McLane |first=Maureen N. |title=My Poets |publisher=Farrar, Straus & Giroux |year=2012}}
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