{"product_id":"mz-n-maureen-n-mclane-9780374537050","title":"Mz N: The Serial: A Poem-In-Episodes","description":"\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Maureen N. McLane\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0374537054\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780374537050\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Farrar, Straus and Giroux\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/02\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 128\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.00w x 0.40d","brand":"Maureen N. McLane","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44583711179007,"sku":"9780374537050","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e9ff0040-3f31-4141-9b5b-d3067356fe39.jpg?v=1701883135","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/mz-n-maureen-n-mclane-9780374537050","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}