More Anon
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021
More Anon gathers a selection of poems from Maureen N. McLane’s critically acclaimed first five books of poetry.
McLane, whose 2014 collection This Blue was a finalist for the National Book Award, is a poet of wit and play, of romanticism and intellect, of song and polemic. More Anon presents her work anew. The poems spark with life, and the concentrated selection showcases her energy and style.
As Parul Seghal wrote in Bookforum, “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.” In More Anon, McLane—a poet, scholar, and prizewinning critic—displays the full range of her vertiginous mind and daring experimentation.
Praise/PRESS
Why Feel Bad About Beauty?
More Anon charts Maureen N. McLane’s career-long ambivalence toward the Romantic canon.
–Poetry Foundation, Gillian White, 19 July 2021
"This collection shines with a wonderful mix of irreverence and profundity."
—Publishers Weekly
"Drawing from her first five books, this selection highlights McLane’s puckish tone and piercing insights. 'The light bending / around our bodies becomes our body,' she writes, 'the lovers ablaze on the pyre."
– “4 Poetry Books to Read,” Gregory Cowles, New York Times Sunday Book Review
“Maureen McLane‘s More Anon gives a wonderful retrospective of her work from five books, a window on the beautiful mind that knows how to propel us with music and flair. There will be many moments when you will laugh out loud as you turn the page, but there will also be moments of quiet, for McLane is a master of nuance–and one thing about her precision is that it actually teaches a reader how to be attentive, to slow down, to see. But because it is McLane, this nuance is always playful, dazzling.”
– Ilya Kaminsky, “A Short List of Books Ilya Kaminsky Loved in 2021,” Poetry Daily
“More Anon presents McLane as a lowercase-e experimentalist, taking a methodical ‘look’ at the marvelous.”
– Christopher Spaide, Sewanee Review