{"product_id":"my-poets-9780374533830","title":"My Poets","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA thrillingly original exploration of a life lived under poetry's uniquely seductive spell\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Oh  there are spirits of the air,\" wrote Percy Bysshe Shelley. In this stunningly original book, Maureen N. McLane channels the spirits and voices that make up the music in one poet's mind. Weaving criticism and memoir, \u003ci\u003eMy Poets\u003c\/i\u003e explores a life reading and a life read. McLane invokes not necessarily the best poets, nor the most important poets (whoever these might be), but those writers who, in possessing her, made her. \"I am marking here what most marked me,\" she writes. Ranging from Chaucer to H.D. to William Carlos Williams to Louise Gluck to Shelley (among others), McLane tracks the \"growth of a poet's mind,\" as Wordsworth put it in \u003ci\u003eThe Prelude\u003c\/i\u003e. In poetical prose both probing and incantatory, McLane has written a radical book of experimental criticism. Susan Sontag called for an \"erotics of interpretation\": this is it. Part \u003ci\u003eBildung\u003c\/i\u003e, part dithyramb, part exegesis, \u003ci\u003eMy Poets\u003c\/i\u003e extends an implicit invitation to you, dear reader, to consider who your \"my poets,\" or \"my novelists,\" or \"my filmmakers,\" or \"my pop stars,\" might be.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Farrar Straus Giroux\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/14\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780374533830\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 273\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.64lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.13h x 5.65w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/16\/2013 pg. 30\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Maureen N. McLane","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43705047253173,"sku":"9780374533830","price":18.69,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_d08ae0a0-ea8d-4eb7-957d-9b9291287226.jpg?v=1709653488","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/my-poets-9780374533830","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}