susan mclean

Susan McLean

Susan McLean is an English professor at Southwest Minnesota State University. Her first poetry book, The Best Disguise, won the 2009 Richard Wilbur Award, and her second book, The Whetstone Misses the Knife, won the 2014 Donald Justice Poetry Prize. Selected Epigrams, her translations of over five hundred Latin epigrams by Martial, will be published by the University of Wisconsin Press. Her poems and translations have appeared in Measure, Mezzo Cammin, Arion, Transference, Light, and elsewhere.

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Book Review of The Best Disguise by Susan McLean

Book Review —

Susan McLean: The Best Disguise

(The University of Evansville Press, 2009)
ISBN 0-930982-68-1, $15.00

The best disguise is nakedness, McLean’s
first line asserts (if I may paraphrase).
She spends her book unpacking what that means.

The Best Disguise

The Best Disguise by Susan McLean, recipient of the 2009 Richard Wilbur Award, is a remarkable collection of varied lyric poems that examine contemporary life with wit, insight, and a profound intensity. As Philip Dacey comments, "In any mode -- plangent or bawdy, searing or witty -- the poems in this book consistently project both a consummate artistry and an affecting humanity." Despite the author s obvious erudition and formal skills, the poems in The Best Disguise are as accessible as they are affecting and memorable.

author: McLean
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ASIN or ISBN-10: 0930982681
binding: Hardcover
list price: $15.00 USD
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Julie Stoner

Julie Stoner, a former librarian, homeschools her daughters in San Diego. She is a regular participant at Eratosphere, Able Muse’s online workshop site.