@article{453788,
      author = {McLane, Maureen N.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/453788},
      title = {My poets /},
      publisher = {Farrar, Straus and Giroux,},
      abstract = {"Oh! there are spirits of the air," wrote Percy Bysshe  Shelley. In this stunningly original book Maureen N. McLane  channels the spirits and voices that make up the music in  one poet's mind. Weaving criticism and memoir, "My Poets"  explores a life reading and a life read. McLane invokes in  "My Poets" not necessarily the best poets, nor the most  important poets (whoever these might be), but those writers  who, in possessing her, made her. "I am marking here what  most marked me," she writes. Ranging from Chaucer to H.D.  to William Carlos Williams to Louise Gluck to Shelley  (among others), McLane tracks the "growth of a poet's  mind," as Wordsworth put it in "The Prelude." In a poetical  prose both probing and incantatory, McLane has written a  radical book of experimental criticism. Susan Sontag called  for an "erotics of interpretation" this is it. Part  "Bildung," part dithyramb, part exegesis, "My Poets"  extends an implicit invitation to you, dear reader, to  consider who your "my poets," or "my novelists," or "my  filmmakers," or "my pop stars," might be.},
      recid = {453788},
      pages = {273 p. ;},
      address = {New York :},
      year = {2012},
}