McLane's first full-length poetry collection (
Same Life: poems,
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2008) was a finalist for the
Lambda Literary Award and The Publishing Triangle Audre Lorde Award. It was named as one of the
Chicago Tribune Literary Editor's Best Books. Her follow-up book,
World Enough: poems (
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2010), was selected by
Paul Muldoon in
The New Yorker as a best poetry book of the year. McLane achieved literary celebrity with the publication of her hybrid criticism-biography
My Poets, which
Paris Review editor
Lorin Stein called "the survey course of my dreams."
My Poets was lauded in
The New York Times,
NPR,
Bookforum,
New York Observer,
Boston Globe, and elsewhere for its groundbreaking hybridity. Writing in
Bookforum,
Parul Sehgal remarked that "To read McLane is to be reminded that the brain may be an organ, but the mind is a muscle. Hers is a roving, amphibious intelligence; she's at home in the essay and the fragment, the polemic and the elegy." == Awards ==