{"product_id":"what-im-looking-for-9780141988122","title":"What Im Looking For","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e''This is surprising, addictive poetry with delicious, seemingly wayward lines . . . McLane is a true Romantic, rooted in tradition while leaping and exulting in her originality'' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eIrish Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGathering the best of her first five collections, a ''sexy, cerebral and romantic'' introduction to one of the US''s most singular and charismatic poets\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLoose-limbed, freewheeling and conversational yet musically taut, Maureen N. McLane''s poetry has been described as having ''a tonal register somewhere between teenage fangirl and Wordsworth professor'' (\u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003ci\u003eWhat I''m Looking For\u003c\/i\u003e gathers selections from her first five books of poetry, from the mixture of love poems and breezy skewerings of Great Literature that characterize her debut, \u003ci\u003eSame Life\u003c\/i\u003e, to the later collections'' shadowing of a mind roaming wittily through nature, philosophy, music and sex, and the bravura life-story-in-episodes of \u003ci\u003eMz N: the serial\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI don't recommend Maureen N. McLane as much as proselytize for her. She's my favourite living poet . . . [Her work] bristles with life, feeling, argument -- Parul Sehgal * The New York Times Book Review *\u003cbr\u003eBreezy and inviting, but also rich and far-reaching . . . Many of the poems are so lovely that one notices their phrasing and pacing first, and then their deeper layers . . . McLane . . . knows when to dazzle and when to disrupt the reader's expectations with a  risqué or cheeky observation -- Elizabeth Lund * Washington Post *\u003cbr\u003eThese are poems that keep you on your toes . . . McLane renders each phrase with the precise and steady hand of an ice sculptor. Her consummate finesse can be a source of delight -- Jeff Gordinier * The New York Times Book Review *\u003cbr\u003eHer mix of the humorous and the cerebral is at once exuberant and rinsed with melancholy . . . It is possible to be carried so far by McLane - by her knowledge, wit, generosity, and musical ear - that one is carried away -- Christine Smallwood * Harper's *\u003cbr\u003eThe unstoppable, riverish fever of her enjambed, short-lined poems quickly draws one down through her mind, which is as good a prism as any I know of to encounter the external \"effects\" of nature, beauty, body . . . she makes memory, inside poetry, a downright erotic activity. It's not just the sex of her thought, but the sex of thought itself that breathes through these gorgeous poems -- Adam Fitzgerald * Lithub *\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732508979543,"sku":"9780141988122","price":11.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780141988122.jpg?v=1719997194","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/what-im-looking-for-9780141988122","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}