What You Want

Name: What You Want
Brand: Penguin Random House NZ
SKU: 9781802063141
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By Maureen N. McLane

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What You Want by Maureen N. McLane explores a rich tapestry of emotions and insights through a blend of poetry and narrative. The book offers an introspective journey into the intricacies of desire, personal identity, and cultural expression. With lyrical prose, McLane navigates the complexities of the human experience, leaving readers to ponder what they truly seek in life.
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You might enjoy this book if you appreciate a blend of poetry and criticism that delves into the complexities of desire and personal reflection. It offers a unique exploration of art, culture, and the human experience, making it an intriguing read for those interested in thought-provoking and emotive narratives.

What You Want

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The wry, searching new collection by National Book Award finalist Maureen N. McLane, musing on the sea, ageing, love, and the climate crisis.

In her first book of poems since What I'm Looking For: Selected Poems 2005-2017, Maureen N. McLane offers a bravura collection of perceptive poetic meditations. What You Want is a book of landscapes, mindscapes, and shifting moods.

Here are poems filled with gulls and harbours, blinking red lights and empty lobster traps, beach roses and rumoured sharks, eels and crows, wind turbines and superhighways. Sensitive, lyrical, and alert to seasons and pressures on our shared life, McLane registers and gives form to an ambient unease. From Sappho to Constable, from constellations to microplastics, What You Want is a book alive to the cosmos as well as to our moment, with its many vexations and intermittent illuminations.

With strong command and delicate invitation, McLane moves from swift notations to powerfully sustained sequences, testing what (if anything) might 'outlast the coming heat'. And meanwhile, 'There’s no end / to beauty and shit'.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781802063141

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 June 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Penguin

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 7.0mm

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 100g

Pages: 128

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Arts & Culture General Fiction Maureen N. McLane Non-Fiction Penguin Books

About the Author

Raised in upstate New York, Maureen N. McLane is the author of seven previous books of poetry, including This Blue (2014), a finalist for the National Book Award, and Some Say (2017); What I'm Looking For- Selected Poems 2005-2017 was published by Penguin Books in 2019. Her book My Poets, a hybrid of memoir and criticism, was a finalist for the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography. She holds degrees from Harvard University, the University of Oxford and the University of Chicago, and teaches poetry and poetics at New York University.