{"product_id":"9780374714796","title":"Mz N: the serial: A Poem-in-Episodes","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe acclaimed poet, memoirist, and essayist Maureen N. McLane here charts a new path into vital genre-bending territories. Not a novel, not a memoir, not a lyric, \u003ci\u003eMz N: the serial: A Poem-in-Episodes \u003c\/i\u003eoffers something else—“life . . . a continual allegory” (to invoke Keats): a life intense, episodic, female, sexual, philosophical, romantic, analytic. Tracking the growth of one poet’s mind, switchbacking its way through American English, \u003ci\u003eMz N \u003c\/i\u003etoggles between story and song. This is a poetry both “furious \/\u0026amp;alive.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlive to the lash of love, the longueurs of adolescence, the limits of identity, \u003ci\u003eMz N: the serial: A Poem-in-Episodes\u003c\/i\u003e is a bravura experiment in life-writing—an assaying, a testing, a transforming, an honoring of the tentative and the torqued. What is it to be contemporary, to be “one \/ among other ones” in a “cracking world”? How does a body vibrate into being? How is a mind made out of other minds? Seizing the queer realities of any life, \u003ci\u003eMz N\u003c\/i\u003e explores how one is surprised, seduced, and struck into speech, thought, song, silence. “Then, what is life?” cried Shelley. So too \u003ci\u003eMz N\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47121463574768,"sku":"9780374714796","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780374714796_p0.jpg?v=1769917286","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780374714796","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}