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Maureen McLane (born December 24, 1967) is an American poet, critic, and professor. She received the National Book Critics Circle Award.
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McLane was raised in upstate New York. She holds degrees from Harvard University, University of Oxford (where she was a Rhodes Scholar), and 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.[1][2]
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.[3] 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."[4] My Poets was lauded in The New York Times, NPR, Bookforum, New York Observer, Boston Globe,[5] and elsewhere for its groundbreaking hybridity.[6]
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."[7]
- National Book Critics Circle 2012 Finalist in Autobiography
- 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
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Poetry
Collections
- McLane, Maureen N. (2008). Same Life: poems. Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
- McLane, Maureen N. (2010). World Enough: poems. Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
- McLane, Maureen N. (2014). This Blue: poems. Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
- McLane, Maureen N. (2016). Mz N: the serial. Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
- 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
| Title | Year | First published | Reprinted/collected |
|---|---|---|---|
| Taking a walk in the woods after having taken a walk in the woods with you | 2013 | McLane, Maureen N. (February 25, 2013). "Taking a walk in the woods after having taken a walk in the woods with you". The New Yorker. Vol. 89, no. 2. p. 52. Retrieved 2015-05-02. | |
Non-fiction
- McLane, Maureen N. (2000). Romanticism and the Human Sciences: Poetry, Population, and the Discourse of the Species. Cambridge University Press.
- McLane, Maureen N. (2008). Balladeering, Minstrelsy, and the Making of British Romantic Poetry. Cambridge University Press.
- McLane, Maureen N. (2012). My Poets. Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
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