Poetry - Autumn 2009

Six Poems

By Maureen N. McLane

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Maureen N. McLane is a poet whose first collection, Same Life, appeared last year. Her second book, World Enough, will be published in 2010. She is also the author of Balladeering, Minstrelsy, and the Making of British Romantic Poetry, which is part literary criticism and part cultural history.