{"product_id":"my-poetics-9780226832647","title":"My Poetics","description":"\u003cb\u003eAcclaimed poet and critic Maureen N. McLane offers an experimental work of criticism ranging across Romantic and contemporary poetry.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003eMy Poetics\u003c\/i\u003e, Maureen N. McLane writes as a poet, critic, theorist, and scholar--but above all as an impassioned reader. Written in an innovative, conversable style, McLane's essays illuminate her own poetics and suggest more generally all that poetics can encompass. Ranging widely from romantic-era odes and hymns to anonymous ballads to haikus and haibuns to modernist and contemporary poetries in English, \u003ci\u003eMy Poetics\u003c\/i\u003e explores poems as speculative instruments and as ways of registering our very sense of being alive. McLane pursues a number of open questions: How do poems generate modes for thinking? How does rhyme help us measure out thought? What is the relation of poetry to its surroundings, and how do specific poems activate that relation? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e If, as Wallace Stevens wrote, \"poetry is the scholar's art,\" \u003ci\u003eMy Poetics\u003c\/i\u003e flies under a slightly different banner: study and criticism are also the poet's art. Punctuated with McLane's poems and drawing variously on Hannah Arendt, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Roland Barthes, Bruno Latour, and other writers and poets, \u003ci\u003eMy Poetics\u003c\/i\u003e is a formally as well as intellectually adventurous work. Its artful arrangement of readings and divagations shows us a way to be with poems and poetics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMaureen N. McLane\u003c\/b\u003e is the Henry James Professor of English and American Letters at New York University. She is the author of four works of prose, most recently, \u003ci\u003eMy Poets\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBalladeering, Minstrelsy, and the Making of British Romantic Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e, and eight books of poems, including \u003ci\u003eWhat You Want\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThis Blue\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSome Say\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50649501368594,"sku":"9780226832647","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f72354f1-7174-4df1-8eb8-8663dca11a60.jpg?v=1737253326","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/my-poetics-9780226832647","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}