Susan McLean, a retired professor of English, has published two poetry books, The Best Disguise and The Whetstone Misses the Knife , and one book of translations of the Latin poems of Martial, Selected

There is more than a touch of this spirit in many of Susan McLean’s many memorable “light” poems that smile at you as the knife goes in, and it’s not too much perhaps to imagine that in choosing Martial to translate she was, consciously or not, following the 17 th century poet Wentworth Dillon’s advice to a translator when he said ...

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] She graduated from Harvard University with a BA in English in 1975 and from Rutgers University with a PhD in 1990.

Susan McLean is the author of two poetry books, The Best Disguise and The Whetstone Misses the Knife, and a book of translations of the Latin poet Martial, Selected Epigrams.

Susan McLean, a retired English professor, is the author of The Best Disguise and The Whetstone Misses the Knife, and the translator of a book of Martial’s Latin poems, Selected Epigrams. She lives in Iowa City, Iowa.

Feb 22, 2020 · Susan McLean is a retired English professor from Southwest Minnesota State University. Her poetry books include The Best Disguise (winner of the Richard Wilbur Award) and The Whetstone Misses the Knife (winner of the Donald Justice Poetry Prize). She has also published a book of translations of Martial’s Latin poems, Selected Epigrams. She ...

Susan McLean ‘s poems have recently appeared in Valparaiso Poetry Review, Think Journal, Blue Unicorn, The Orchards Poetry Journal, and The Road Not Taken. She is also Translations Editor for Better Than Starbucks.

Susan McLean, a retired professor of English from Southwest Minnesota State University, is the author of The Best Disguise, which won the Richard Wilbur Award, and The Whetstone Misses the Knife, which won the Donald Justice Poetry Prize.

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Susan McLean, a retired professor of English from Southwest Minnesota State University, has published two books of poetry, The Best Disguise (2009) and The Whetstone Misses the Knife (2014), as well as one book of translations of the Latin poet Martial, Selected Epigrams (2014).