Susan McLean

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Susan McLean is an American poet, a translator of poetry, [1] and a retired professor of English at Southwest Minnesota State University in Marshall, Minnesota. [2]

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She graduated from Harvard University with a BA in English in 1975 and from Rutgers University with a PhD in 1990. [3] [4] Her work has appeared in Kalliope, [5] Atlanta Review, The Formalist, [6] Iambs and Trochees, Arion, [7] Measure, The Classical Outlook, Literary Imagination. [8] She writes in the field of formalism. According to an interview with the Poetry Foundation, she describes her love of formalism as: " I am addicted to the esoteric pleasures of rhyme and meter, and I don’t even try to deny it or camouflage it with slant rhyme". She has been portrayed as a New Formalist by many if not most noted critics of her work. [9]

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  5. Kalliope. Jacksonville Women's Poetry Collective, Center for the Continuing Education of Women, Florida Junior College at Jacksonville. 1992-01-01.
  6. The Formalist. The Formalist. 2001-01-01.
  7. Arion. Trustees of Boston University. 2003-01-01.
  8. Literary Imagination: The Review of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics. The Association. 2007-01-01.
  9. Stallings, A. E. (29 November 2007). "Why No One Wants to be a New Formalist" . Retrieved 27 July 2021.
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