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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. 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McLane here charts a new path into vital genre-bending territories. Not a verse novel, not a verse memoir, \u003ci\u003eMz N: the serial:\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eA Poem-in-Episodes\u003c\/i\u003e offers something else--\"life . . . a continual allegory\" (to invoke Keats): a life intense, episodic, female, sexual, philosophical, romantic, analytic. Tracking the growth of one poet's mind, switchbacking its way through American English, \u003ci\u003eMz N\u003c\/i\u003e toggles between story and song. This is a poetry both \"furious \/ \u0026amp; alive.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Alive to the lash of love, the longueurs of adolescence, the limits of identity, \u003ci\u003eMz N:\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003ethe serial:\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eA Poem-in-Episodes\u003c\/i\u003e is a bravura experiment in life-writing--an assaying, a testing, a transforming, an honoring of the tentative and the torqued. 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McLane\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003estuns with a precise, perceptive book of poetic meditations.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eIn her first book of poems since the scintillating \u003ci\u003eMore Anon: Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e, Maureen N. McLane offers a bravura, trenchant sounding out of inner and outer weathers. \u003ci\u003eWhat You Want\u003c\/i\u003e is a book of core landscapes, mindscapes, and shifting moods. Meditative, lyrical, alert to seasons and pressures on our shared life, McLane registers and shapes an ambient unease. Whether skying with John Constable or walking on wintry paths in our precarious republic, the poet channels what Wordsworth called \"moods of my own mind\" while she scans for our common horizon.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Here are poems filled with gulls and harbors, blinking red lights and empty lobster traps, beach roses and rumored sharks, eels and crows, wind turbines and superhighways. 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