{"product_id":"mz-n-the-serial-a-poem-in-episodes-paperback","title":"Mz N: The Serial: A Poem-In-Episodes - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMaureen N. McLane\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe acclaimed poet, memoirist, and essayist Maureen N. 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\u003eoffers 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\u003etoggles between story and song. This is a poetry both \"furious \/ \u0026amp; alive.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlive 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. What is it to be contemporary, to be \"one \/ among other ones\" in a \"cracking world\"? How does a body vibrate into being? How is a mind made out of other minds? Seizing the queer realities of any life, \u003ci\u003eMz N\u003c\/i\u003e explores how one is surprised, seduced, and struck into speech, thought, song, silence. \"Then, what is life?\" cried Shelley. So too \u003ci\u003eMz N\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMaureen N. McLane\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of several books of poetry, including the 2014 National Book Award finalist \u003ci\u003eThis Blue\u003c\/i\u003e (FSG, 2014). Her book \u003ci\u003eMy Poets\u003c\/i\u003e (FSG, 2012), a hybrid of memoir and criticism, was a finalist for the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 128\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 7.9 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 02, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47429342691577,"sku":"9780374537050","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/Q_Zc4URmuW9780374537050.webp?v=1771445198","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/mz-n-the-serial-a-poem-in-episodes-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}