Some Say: Poems, Hardcover

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A dazzling collection of poems exploring the mental landscape of our moment Maureen N. Mc Lane's Some Say revolves around a dazzling ""old sun."" Here are poems on sex and death; here are poems testing the ""bankrupt idea / of nature."" Some Say 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, Some Say charts ""the weather of an old day / suckerpunched"" into the now. Following on her bravura Mz N: the serial: A Poem-in-Episodes, Mc Lane bends lyric to the torque of our moment--and of any moment under the given sun. Some Say encompasses full-barreled odes and austere lines, whiplashing discourse and minimal notations. In her fifth book of poems, Mc Lane 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, Some Say is 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.""