Maggie nelson is one of the most electrifying writers at work in america today, among the sharpest and most supple thinkers of her generation olivia laing bluets winds its way through depression, divinity, alcohol, and desire, visiting along the way with famous blue figures, including joni mitchell, billie holiday, yves klein, leonard cohen and andy warhol. It is a set of twohundredandforty loosely linked fragments. A guardian book of the year maggie nelson is one of the most electrifying writers at work in america today, among the sharpest and most supple thinkers of her generation olivia laing bluetswinds its way through depression, divinity, alcohol, and desire, visiting along the way with famous blue figures, including joni mitchell, billie holiday, yves klein, leonard cohen and andy warhol. Her work is often described as genre crossing or hybrid. Maggie nelson is the author of numerous books of poetry and nonfiction, including something bright, then. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. With bluets, maggie nelson has entered the pantheon of brilliant lyric essayists. A guardian book of the year maggie nelson is one of the most electrifying writers at work in america today, among the sharpest and most supple thinkers of her generation olivia laing bluets winds its way through depression, divinity, alcohol, and desire, visiting along the way with famous blue figures, including joni mitchell, billie holiday, yves klein, leonard cohen and andy warhol. Actually im not sure this book technically counts as a book of poems. To hear the mass media speak of it, the mere suggestion of embellishment, never mind invention, disrupts the hopeful economy of memoirs in which. Maggie nelson is a poet, art critic, and author of nonfiction books such as the art of cruelty. At the bottom of the swimming pool, i watched the white winter light spangle the cloudy blue and i knew together they made god. Nelson has been the recipient of a 2016 macarthur fellowship, a 2012 creative capital literature fellowship, a 2011 nea fellowship in poetry, and a 2010 guggenheim fellowship in nonfiction.
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. Click and collect from your local waterstones or get free uk delivery on orders over. Bluets is a book by american author maggie nelson, published by wave books in 2009. Maggie nelsons bluets takes aim at one of todays most beloved forms of writingthe autobiographycoyly challenging the genres attachment to truthful stories of the self and the form thought best to convey them. A guardian book of the year maggie nelson is one of the most electrifying writers. Oct 01, 2009 with bluets, maggie nelson has entered the pantheon of brilliant lyric essayists. A guardian book of the year maggie nelson is one of the most. Nov 06, 2017 in her 2015 article on maggie nelson s the argonauts, olivia laing wrote that the nelsonian unit of thought is not the chapter but the paragraph, a mode that allows for deep swerves and juxtapositions, for the interspersing of anecdote and analysis. The work hybridizes several prose and poetry styles as it documents. Buy maggie nelson ebooks to read online or download in pdf or epub on your pc, tablet or mobile device. Bluets ebook published october 1st 2009 by wave books ebook, 112 pages authors. Bluets paperback mostly books an independent bookstore in.
Maggie nelson is the author of nine books of poetry and prose, many of which have become cult classics defying categorization. Apr 02, 2016 f rom the moment last year when the argonauts, maggie nelsons most recent book, was published in her native us, it was much talkedabout, fervently recommended, highly fashionable. Bluets 2009 is an unclassifiable book of prose written in numbered segments that deals with pain, pleasure, heartbreak, and the consolations of philosophy. A membrane can simply rip off your life, like a skin of congealed paint torn off the top of a can. Her nonfiction titles include the argonauts forthcoming from graywolf press, may 2015, the art of cruelty. Maggie nelsons bluets opens with the line, suppose i were to begin by saying that i had fallen in love with a color. No purchase or patience could grant us that access. Bluets by maggie nelson overdrive rakuten overdrive. Les ebooks kindle peuvent etre lus sur nimporte quel appareil avec lappli. The author maggie nelson, born in 1973, has authored halfadozen books, among them poetry collections, memoirs, and nonfiction. Read on for an extract from her unclassifiable book bluets, published for the first time in the uk in june 2017. Her other nonfiction titles include the national book critics circle award winner the argonauts. A lyrical, philosophical, and often explicit exploration of personal suffering and the limitations of vision and love, as refracted through the color blue.
Oct 15, 2009 with bluets, maggie nelson has entered the pantheon of brilliant lyric essayists. When i walked into my friends hospital room, her eyes were a piercing, pale blue and the only part of her body that could move. That this blue exists makes my life remarkable one, just to have seen it. Text publishing the argonauts, book by maggie nelson. Bluets ebook published october 1st 2009 by wave books ebook, 112 pages. Olivia laing nelson s candour, also evident in the argonauts, gives bluets a turbocharged vitality, precision and authenticity that frees her to reflect on the way female desire is too often. A lyrical, philosophical, and often explicit exploration of personal suffering and the. December 2009 gina myers nonfiction bluets by maggie nelson. Maggie nelson is the author of four books of nonfiction. Much like roland barthess a lovers discourse, bluets has passed between lovers. In this case the color is blue and what follows is a philosophical. Jun 15, 2017 a guardian book of the year maggie nelson is one of the most electrifying writers at work in america today, among the sharpest and most supple thinkers of her generation olivia laing bluets winds its way through depression, divinity, alcohol, and desire, visiting along the way with famous blue figures, including joni mitchell, billie holiday, yves klein, leonard cohen and andy warhol. Maggie nelson is one of the most electrifying writers at work in america today, among the sharpest and most supple thinkers of her generation olivia laing bluets winds its way through depression, divinity, alcohol, and desire, visiting along the way with famous blue figures, including joni mitchell, billie holiday, yves klein, leonard cohen. She is generally described as a genrebusting writer defying classification, working in autobiography, art criticism, theory, scholarship, and poetry.
Maggie nelson is the author of numerous books of poetry and nonfiction. Buy bluets by maggie nelson from waterstones today. Its been a while since ive been struck by an epigraph. Poet, scholar, and nonfiction writer maggie nelson earned a phd in english literature at the graduate center, cuny. Something that began as an appreciation, an affinity became something more serious and then it became somehow personal. That was true for the argonauts, but it hits even closer to home in the case of bluets. The halfcircle of blinding turquoise ocean is this loves primal scene. And were it true, we do not think all philosophy is worth one hour of pain. The book, not even a hundred pages long, is split in 240. Each numbered fragment is either a sentence or a short paragraph, none longer than twohundred words. An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language and family. Sign in or create your guardian account to join the discussion. A guardian book of the year maggie nelson is one of the most electrifying writers at work in america today, among the sharpest and most supple thinkers of her generation olivia laing bluets winds its way through depression, divinity, alcohol, and desire, visiting along the way with famous blue figures, including joni mitchell, billie holiday. Published two months after the author turned fortytwo, the slim, intense volume, which tells the.
Our author of the month in june is maggie nelson, one of the most perpetually astonishing writers at work in america today. I returned there yesterday and stood again upon the mountain. But this is precisely what bluets, maggie nelsons arty, smart and gorgeous meditation on the color blue, sets out to do, and it is alarming how much drama she creates from a subject so. At a job interview at a university, three men sitting across from me at a table. Her other nonfiction titles include the national book critics circle award winner the argonauts 2015, the art of cruelty. She teaches in the school of critical studies at calarts. Maggie nelsons bluets by ericaeller although maggie nelson is more popular for her genrebending book, the argonauts, i recently had a chance to read her earlier poetry book bluets. 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. Maggie nelsons the argonauts is a genrebending memoir, a work of autotheory offering fresh, fierce and timely thinking about desire, identity and the limitations and possibilities of love and language.
The work hybridizes several prose and poetry styles as it documents nelson s multifaceted experience with the color blue, and is often referred to as lyric essay or prose poetry. Maggie nelson is one of the most electrifying writers at work in america today. Maggie nelson is one of the most electrifying writers at work in america today, among the sharpest and most supple thinkers of her generation. Bluets paperback mostly books an independent bookstore.
F rom the moment last year when the argonauts, maggie nelsons most recent book, was published in her native us, it was much talkedabout, fervently recommended, highly fashionable. Bluets is brilliant and sad, and it adds to the excellent body of work this prolific, young writer has created. Suppose i were to begin by saying that i had fallen in love with a color. Presentation mode open print download current view. Olivia laing nelsons candour, also evident in the argonauts, gives bluets a turbocharged vitality, precision and authenticity that frees her to reflect on the way female desire is too often. Maggie nelson suppose i were to begin by saying that i had fallen in love with a color. The work hybridizes several prose and poetry styles as it documents nelsons multifaceted experience with the color blue, and is often referred to as lyric essay or prose poetry.
She first published bluets with wave books in 2009. To hear the mass media speak of it, the mere suggestion of embellishment, never mind invention. Feb 20, 2014 bluets by maggie nelson anyways, the premise of the book is nelsons exploration of the literary and cultural history of the color blue and how that information intersects with the narrators presumably her own personal life. Likewise, maggie nelsons text practices the art of restraint more than it practices revelation, offering up a kind of exclusive set of inquiries that are probably only scratching the surface of a larger whole.
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