{"product_id":"some-say-poems-9780374537722","title":"Some Say: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA dazzling collection of poems exploring the mental landscape of our moment\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMaureen N. McLane's \u003ci\u003eSome \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eSay\u003c\/i\u003e revolves around a dazzling \"old sun.\" Here are poems on sex and death; here are poems testing the \"bankrupt idea \/ of nature.\" \u003ci\u003eSome Say\u003c\/i\u003e offers an erotics of attention; a mind roaming, registering, and intermittently blocked; a mortal poet going \"nowhere fast but where \/ we're all going.\" From smartphones to dead gods to the beloved's body, \u003ci\u003eSome Say\u003c\/i\u003e charts \"the weather of an old day \/ suckerpunched\" into the now. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFollowing on her bravura \u003ci\u003eMz N: the serial: A Poem-in-Episodes\u003c\/i\u003e, McLane bends lyric to the torque of our moment--and of any moment under the given sun. \u003ci\u003eSome Say\u003c\/i\u003e encompasses full-barreled odes and austere lines, whiplashing discourse and minimal notations. In her fifth book of poems, McLane continues her \"songs of a season\" even as she responds to new vibrations--political, 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 \"unmarked dark\" as the poet explores \"a cosmos full \/ of people and black holes.\" From its troubled, exhilarated dawns to its scanned night sky, \u003ci\u003eSome Say \u003c\/i\u003eis both a furthering and a summation by a poet scouring and singing the world \"full \/\/ as it always was \/ of wings \/ of meaning and nothing.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMaureen N. McLane\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of such poetry books as \u003ci\u003eMz N: the serial: A Poem-in-Episodes \u003c\/i\u003e(FSG, 2016) and the 2014 National Book Award finalist \u003ci\u003eThis Blue\u003c\/i\u003e (FSG, 2014). Her book \u003ci\u003eMy Poets\u003c\/i\u003e (FSG, 2012), a hybrid of memoir and criticism, was a finalist for the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50410796613906,"sku":"9780374537722","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d491bf60-9482-40bb-85e0-6c3e2a8eefed.jpg?v=1729307455","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/some-say-poems-9780374537722","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}