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, AndalucĂa, 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 singingintricate, sexy, smart.