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Maggie Nelson

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Maggie Nelson is most recently the author of three books of nonfiction: Bluets (Wave Books, 2009); Women, the New York School, and Other True Abstractions (University of Iowa Press, 2007), and The Red Parts: A Memoir (Free Press, 2007). The Art of Cruelty, a work of art criticism, is forthcoming from WW Norton. Nelson is also the author of several books of poetry, including Something Bright, Then Holes (Soft Skull Press, 2007), Jane: A Murder (Soft Skull, 2005), The Latest Winter (Hanging Loose Press, 2003) and Shiner (Hanging Loose, 2001). In 2007 she was the recipient of an Arts Writers grant from the Creative Capital/Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. She has taught writing and literature at the Graduate Writing Program of the N...more

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Average rating: 4.24 · 847 ratings · 162 reviews · 11 distinct works

	Bluets 4.44 avg rating — 372 ratings — published 2009	My rating:
	Jane: A Murder 4.18 avg rating — 145 ratings — published 2005 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Red Parts: A Memoir 3.82 avg rating — 100 ratings — published 2007 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning 3.95 avg rating — 93 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Something Bright, Then Holes 4.13 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 2007	My rating:
	The Latest Winter 4.28 avg rating — 25 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Women, the New York School, and Other True Abstractions 4.28 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2007 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Shiner 3.79 avg rating — 14 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Feminaissance by Christine Wertheim (Editor), Bhanu Kapil (contributor), Eileen Myles (contributor) 4.79 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	Take Three: 3 (Agni New Poets Series, No 3) by Jennifer Barber (Goodreads Author), Maggie Nelson 3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1998	My rating:

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“Loneliness is solitude with a problem.”
― Maggie Nelson

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“WHAT IT IS

It is what
it is. But
what is it?

What it is—

Some soft
tautology

whose terms
are touch

Time to give, time
to give it up. ”
― Maggie Nelson, Something Bright, Then Holes

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“156. Why is the sky blue? -A fair enough question, and one I have learned the answer to several times. Yet every time I try to explain it to someone or remember it to myself, it eludes me. Now I like to remember the question alone, as it reminds me that my mind is essentially a sieve, that I am mortal.

157. The part I do remember: that the blue of the sky depends on the darkness of empty space behind it. As one optics journal puts it, "The color of any planetary atmosphere viewed against the black of space and illuminated by a sunlike star will also be blue." In which case blue is something of an ecstatic accident produced by void and fire.”
― Maggie Nelson, Bluets

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