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National Book Award Finalist

A vital, exhilarating new collection of poems from the National Book Critics Circle nominee

From lichens to malls to merchant republics, it s another day in this here cosmos, in Maureen N. McLane s stunning third poetry collection, This Blue. 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, Andalucia, 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.  This Blue is a searching and a singing–intricate, sexy, smart.