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Something Bright, Then Holes: Poems

Something Bright, Then Holes: Poems

Nelson, Maggie

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General Poetry

Publisher Price: $16.95

ISBN10: 1593762305
ISBN13: 9781593762308
Publisher: Soft Skull
Published: Jun 12 2018
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.10
Language: English
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 vulnerable, intellectually curious, and one of a kind.

These days/the world seems to split up/into those who need to dredge/and those who shrug their shoulders/and say, It's just something/that happened.

While Maggie Nelson refers here to a polluted urban waterway, the Gowanus Canal, these words could just as easily describe Nelson's incisive approach to desire, heartbreak, and emotional excavation in Something Bright, Then Holes. Whether writing from the debris-strewn shores of a contaminated canal or from the hospital room of a friend, Nelson charts each emotional landscape she encounters with unparalleled precision and empathy. Since its publication in 2007, the collection has proven itself to be both a record of a singular vision in the making as well as a timeless meditation on love, loss, and―perhaps most frightening of all―freedom.

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