She has taught writing and literature at The New School, Wesleyan University, and Pratt Institute of Art, though currently teaches at CalArts. Annie DillardĪbout the Author Maggie Nelson is the author of several books of poetry and nonfiction, including Something Bright, Then Holes (Soft Skull Press, 2007) and Women, the New York School, and Other True Abstractions (University of Iowa Press, 2007). Nelson refuses complacency and pushes further into the unknown. Time Out New York Very rarely does a book come along that combines such extraordinary lyricism and ethical precision with the sense that the author is writing for her very life. Praise for Previous Work: A genre buster with an engaging prose style, Nelson interweaves psychoanalysis, personal memoir and true-crime tidbits into a darkly intelligent page-turner. Maggie Nelson is one of the most compelling writers working today. She lives in Los Angeles and teaches at the California Institute of the Arts. Maggie Nelson is the author of numerous books of poetry and nonfiction, including Something Bright, Then Holes (Soft Skull Press, 2007) and Women, the New York School, and Other True Abstractions (University of Iowa Press, 2007). Nelson’s meditation on the color blue, lost love, and depression is a brilliant, effective experiment that defies categorization. Maggie Nelson is the author of nine books of poetry and prose, many of which have become cult classics defying categorization. With Bluets, Maggie Nelson has entered the pantheon of brilliant lyric essayists. Ī lyrical, philosophical, and often explicit exploration of personal suffering and the limitations of vision and love, as refracted through the color blue. She’s travelling alone, on weekends, to promote The Art of. She is a stellar poet (she just won an NEA fellowship for poetry), a. Midway through The Argonauts, her new memoir, the poet and critic Maggie Nelson describes undertaking a book tour while pregnant. Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color. Hardcover, 288 pages purchase Maggie Nelson is the type of intellectual polymath one doesnt see too much of these days. About the Book Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color.

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