Books written by Maggie Nelson

Matthew Barney: OTTO Trilogy

Cohen, David. “London Reviews.” Sculpture, July–August, 49. Flood, Richard. “Notes on Digestion and Film.” In Matthew Barney: PACE CAR FOR THE HUBRIS PILL, 21–35. Rotterdam: Museum Boymans van Beuningen. Exhibition catalogue.
Waypoint Directory: Over 600 Passage and Coastal Waypoints for the English Channel

This Waypoint Directory is a useful guide for anyone who navigates with Decca or GPS, whether under sail or power.
Women, the New York School, and Other True Abstractions

Maggie Nelson provides the first extended consideration of the roles played by women in and around the New York School of poets, from the 1950s to the present, and offers unprecedented analyses of the work of Barbara Guest, Bernadette Mayer ...
Shiner

This book, Nelson's first, heralded the arrival of a fully formed, virtuoso voice.
On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint

On Freedom is an invigorating, essential book for challenging times.
The Argonauts

An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts is a genre-bending memoir, a work of "autotheory" offering fresh, fierce, and timely thinking about desire, ...
Bluets

A lyrical, philosophical, and often explicit exploration of personal suffering and the limitations of vision and love, as refracted through the color blue. With Bluets, Maggie Nelson has entered the pantheon of brilliant lyric essayists.
The Red Parts: Autobiography of a Trial

She never made it- she was brutally murdered, her body found a few miles from campus the following day.The Red Parts is Maggie Nelson's singular account of her aunt Jane's death, and the trial that took place some 35 years afterward.
The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning

... or 800-233-4830 Book design by Dana Sloan Production manager:Julia Druskin Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Nelson, Maggie, 1973– The art of cruelty: a reckoning/Maggie Nelson. — 1st ed. p. cm.
The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning

Discusses whether the brutal imagery present in today's reality and entertainment will shock society into a less alienated state and help create a just social order or whether focusing on representations of cruelty simply makes society more ...
Take Three: 3

Selected by Askold Melnyczuk and the poetry panel of AGNI magazine, Take three: 3 is the third in an important annual series designed to launch the work of new poets.
On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint

In this invigorating, essential book, Maggie Nelson explores how we might think, experience or talk about the concept in ways that are responsive to our divided world.
On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint

So often deployed as a jingoistic, even menacing rallying cry, or limited by a focus on passing moments of liberation, the rhetoric of freedom both rouses and repels. Does it...
The Red Parts: Autobiography of a Trial

The Red Parts is a memoir, an account of a trial, and a provocative essay that interrogates the American obsession with violence and missing white women, and that scrupulously explores the nature of grief, justice, and empathy.
Bluets

"Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color."
Blått

Enligt Dionysos framstår det Gudomliga Mörkret som mörkt bara för att det är så bländande ljust – en paradox jag har ... faktum att detta »bländande mörker« i kristen ikonografi med häpnadsväckande regelbundenhet framträder som blått.
The Latest Winter

The poems of The Latest Winter are rich with wit, melancholy, terror, curiosity, and love.
The Argonauts

An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts is a genre-bending memoir, a work of "autotheory" offering fresh, fierce, and timely thinking about desire, ...
The Argonauts

A brave, fascinating memoir about love, gender, gender theory, having children, death, writing, and the modern family Maggie Nelson, an established poet and prose writer, details her love for and relationship with Harry Dodge, a charismatic ...
Something Bright, Then Holes: Poems

Before Maggie Nelson’s name became synonymous with such genre-defying, binary-slaying writing as The Argonauts and The Art of Cruelty, this collection of poetry introduced readers to a singular voice in the making: exhilarating, fiercely ...