“By turns meditative and exhilarating, My Poetics is a dazzling companion to McLane’s prodigious body of work. A moving, musical work of both criticism and art.”

Anahid Nersessian, author of "Keats’s Odes: A Lover’s Discourse"

“McLane’s spirited defense of poetics is a speculative ballad of clamorous voices approaching, yet averting, the sublime. Ever re-grounding in the world’s whorl, McLane still reaches for stars, fiddling with rhyme / at the edges of time.”

Charles Bernstein, author of "Topsy-Turvy"

“My Poetics develops a sustained claim for poetry as a necessary art in the face of historical crisis and ecological calamity, a form of patterned making that cultivates resistant and responsive attention. Such attention is on full display in McLane’s acutely sensitive engagements with a wide array of poets and poems. Equally attentive to the material conditions that shape poetry today and to the untimely histories of poetic practices and forms, My Poetics develops a bracing and nuanced investigation of the thinking that makes poetry and that poetry generates, again and anew. My Poetics will be an essential, enduring resource for readers and practitioners of poetry.”

Margaret Ronda, author of "Remainders: American Poetry at Nature's End"