This Blue: Poems

This Blue: Poems

<p><b>National Book Award Finalist</b><br /><b></b><br /><b>A vital, exhilarating new collection of poems from the National Book Critics Circle nominee </b><br /><b></b><br />From lichens to malls to merchant republics, it's "another day in this here cosmos," in Maureen N. McLane's stunning third poetry collection, <i>This Blue. </i>Here are songs for and of a new century, poems both archaic and wholly now. In the middle of life, stationed in our common "Terran Life," the poet conjures urban pigeons, Adirondack mountains, Genoa, Andalucía, Belfast, Parma; here is a world sounded out, broken, possibly shareable, newly named: "Take it up Old Adam— / everyday the world exists / to be named." <i>This Blue</i> is a searching and a singing—intricate, sexy, smart.</p>