About Maureen N. McLane: Maureen McLane is an American poet, critic, and professor.
One thinks of the failure of representation since 9/11, the proliferation of novels, the media glut, the surfeit of images that somehow slide too easily into a banal repertoire, commodified shock.
Things are always terrible for some people. The question is the ratio of the palpable hurt to the general session of life in an era.
