Maureen McLane is the author of two books of poetry, World Enough (FSG, 2010), Same Life (FSG, 2008), and of two books of literary criticism. She teaches at New York University.
Poetry
Summer 2011
Levanto
salt lips & a buoyed band binds the sea in loose chains to swim in. the beach's thinned out, the clouds puffing in, the last ferry's debarked a last load. […]
Poetry
Summer 2011
Märchen
The timbering done the afternoon rings out an aftermath. What euphemism would you not choose in this multi-use forest? I've left crumbs for returning the way back marked by tiretracks, […]
Poetry
Summer 2011
Morning Vanitas
Weeding the moss a local boy tends the folly the new gardener created on the patio— a loose quilt of greens the weeds' greens are seen to violate. Every day […]