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Jane(Reprint)
A Murder
by Maggie Nelson
Paperback, 200 Pages, Published 2016 by Soft Skull Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-59376-658-0, ISBN: 1-59376-658-0

"Jane tells the spectral story of the life and death of Maggie Nelson's aunt Jane, who was murdered in 1969 while a first-year law student at the University of Michigan. Though officially unsolved, Jane's murder was apparently the third in a series of seven brutal rape-murders in the area between 1967 and 1969. Nelson was born a few years after Jane's death, and the narrative is suffused with the long shadow her murder cast over both the ..."






The Argonauts(Reprint)
by Maggie Nelson
Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2016 by Graywolf Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-55597-735-1, ISBN: 1-55597-735-9

"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, identity, and the limitations and possibilities of love and language. At its center is a romance: the story of the author's relationship with the artist Harry Dodge. This story, which includes the autho ..."






The Red Parts(Reprint)
Autobiography of a Trial
by Maggie Nelson
Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2016 by Graywolf Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-55597-736-8, ISBN: 1-55597-736-7

"Late in 2004, Maggie Nelson was looking forward to the publication of her book Jane: A Murder, a narrative in verse about the life and death of her aunt, who had been murdered thirty-five years before. The case remained unsolved, but Jane was assumed to have been the victim of an infamous serial killer in Michigan in 1969.Then, one November afternoon, Nelson received a call from her mother, who announced that the case had been reop ..."






The Art of Cruelty(1st Edition)
A Reckoning
by Maggie Nelson
Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2012 by W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN-13: 978-0-393-34314-4, ISBN: 0-393-34314-6

"“A vibrant and engaged work from a writer and thinker who is worthy of our attention.”—Carolyn Kellogg, Los Angeles Times Maggie Nelson has established herself as one of our foremost cultural critics in this landmark work about representations of violence in art. “An important and frequently surprising book . . . could be read as the foundation for a post-avant-garde aesthetics. ?. . . Nelson, who is also a poet, is such a graceful writ ..."






The Latest Winter(Reprint)
by Maggie Nelson
Paperback, 88 Pages, Published 2018 by Zed Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-78699-469-1, ISBN: 1-78699-469-0

"In this, her second anthology of poetry, Maggie Nelson experiments with poetic forms long and short as she charts intimate landscapes, including the poet’s enmeshment in a beloved city—New York—before and after the events of 9/11. The poems of The Latest Winter are rich with wit, melancholy, terror, curiosity, and love.  "






Something Bright, Then Holes(Reprint)
Poems
by Maggie Nelson
Paperback, 78 Pages, Published 2018 by Soft Skull Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-59376-230-8, ISBN: 1-59376-230-5

"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 ..."






Bluets(1st Edition)
by Maggie Nelson
Paperback, 112 Pages, Published 2009 by Wave Books
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ISBN-13: 978-1-933517-40-7, ISBN: 1-933517-40-9

""Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color . . ."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.Maggie Nelson is the author of numerous books of poetry and nonfiction, including "Something Bright, Then Holes" (Soft Sk ..."






Shiner(Reprint)
by Maggie Nelson
Paperback, 88 Pages, Published 2018 by Zed Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-78699-465-3, ISBN: 1-78699-465-8

"In this electrifying and raw debut anthology, Maggie Nelson unpicks the everyday with the quick alchemy and precision of her later modern classics The Argonauts and Bluets. The poems of Shiner experiment with a variety of styles—syllabic verse, sonnets, macaronic translation, Zen poems, walking poems—to express love, bewilderment, grief, and beauty. This book, Nelson's first, heralded the arrival of a fully formed, virtuoso voice."






Women, the New York School, and Other True Abstractions(1st Edition)
by Maggie Nelson
Paperback, 316 Pages, Published 2011 by University Of Iowa Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-60938-109-7, ISBN: 1-60938-109-2

"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, Alice Notley, Eileen Myles, and abstract painter Joan Mitchell as well as a reconsideration of the work of many male New York School writers and artists from a feminist perspective."






Jane
A Murder
by Maggie Nelson
Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2019 by Zed Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-78699-569-8, ISBN: 1-78699-569-7

"Jane tells the spectral story of the life and death of Maggie Nelson’s aunt Jane, who was murdered in 1969 while a first-year law student at the University of Michigan. Though officially unsolved, Jane’s murder was apparently the third in a series of seven brutal rape-murders in the area between 1967 and 1969. Nelson was born a few years after Jane’s death, and the narrative is suffused with the long shadow her murder cast over both the ..."






Penguin Modern Poets 6(1st Edition)
Dark Looks
by Maggie Nelson, Claudia Rankine, Denise Riley
Paperback, 144 Pages, Published 2017 by Penguin
ISBN-13: 978-0-14-198709-5, ISBN: 0-14-198709-X

"The Penguin Modern Poets are succinct, collectible, lovingly-assembled guides to the richness and diversity of contemporary poetry, from the UK, America and beyond. Every volume brings together representative selections from the work of three poets now writing, allowing the seasoned poetry lover and the curious reader alike to encounter our most exciting new voices. Volume 6, Die Deeper into Life , features the work of Maggie Nelson and ..."






Something Bright, Then Holes
by Maggie Nelson
Paperback, 80 Pages, Published 2019 by Zed Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-78699-573-5, ISBN: 1-78699-573-5

"Maggie Nelson's fourth collection of poems combines a wanderer's attention to landscape with a deeply personal exploration of desire, heartbreak, resilience, accident, and flux.Something Bright, Then Holes explores the problem of losing then recovering sight and insight – of feeling lost, then found, then lost again. The book's three sections range widely, and include a long sequence of Niedecker-esque meditations written at the shore o ..."






Jane(5th Edition)
A Murder (Soft Skull ShortLit)
by Maggie Nelson
Paperback, 200 Pages, Published 2005 by Soft Skull Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-932360-71-4, ISBN: 1-932360-71-9

"Jane tells the spectral story of the life and death of Maggie Nelson s aunt Jane, who was murdered in 1969 while a first-year law student at the University of Michigan. Though officially unsolved, Jane s murder was apparently the third in a series of seven brutal rape-murders in the area. Nelson was born a few years after Jane s death, and the narrative is suffused with the long shadow her murder cast over both the family and her psyche ..."






The Argonauts
by Maggie Nelson
Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 1891 by Melville House Uk
ISBN-13: 978-0-9934149-1-6, ISBN: 0-9934149-1-5

"An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and familyMaggie Nelson's The Argonauts is a genre-bending memoir, a work of ''autotheory'' offering fresh, fierce, and timely thinking about desire, identity, and the limitations and possibilities of love and language. At its center is a romance: the story of the author's relationship with the artist Harry Dodge. This story, which includes Nelson's acc ..."






The Argonauts(1st Edition)
A Memoir
by Maggie Nelson
Hardcover, 160 Pages, Published 2015 by Graywolf Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-55597-707-8, ISBN: 1-55597-707-3

"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, identity, and the limitations and possibilities of love and language. At its center is a romance: the story of the author's relationship with the artist Harry Dodge. This story, which includes Nelson's acco ..."






The Art of Cruelty(1st Edition)
A Reckoning
by Maggie Nelson
Hardcover, 304 Pages, Published 2011 by W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN-13: 978-0-393-07215-0, ISBN: 0-393-07215-0

"A fresh new voice in art and cultural criticism takes on the day's most pressing questions about representations of violence in art.Today both reality and entertainment crowd our fields of vision with brutal imagery. The pervasiveness of images of torture, horror, and war has all but demolished the twentieth-century hope that such imagery might shock us into a less alienated state, or aid in the creation of a just social order. What to ..."






Something Bright, Then Holes(1st Edition)
by Maggie Nelson
Paperback, 112 Pages, Published 2007 by Soft Skull Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-933368-80-1, ISBN: 1-933368-80-2

"Maggie Nelson’s fourth collection of poems combines a wanderer’s attention to landscape with a deeply personal exploration of desire, heartbreak, resilience, accident, and flux. Something Bright, Then Holes explores the problem of losing then recovering sight and insight — of feeling lost, then found, then lost again. The book’s three sections range widely, and include a long sequence of Niedecker-esque meditations written at the shore ..."






The Red Parts(1st Edition)
A Memoir
by Maggie Nelson
Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 2007 by Free Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-4165-3203-3, ISBN: 1-4165-3203-X

"One day in March 1969, twenty-three- year-old Jane Mixer was on her way home to tell her parents she was getting married. She had arranged for a ride through the campus bulletin board at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where she was one of a handful of pioneering women students at the law school. Her body was found the following morning just inside the gates of a small cemetery fourteen miles away, shot twice in the head and st ..."






Intermittent Fasting for Women
Complete Beginner's Guide to Intermittent Fasting - How it Works, Benefits, Do's and Don'ts, Safety and Side Effects
by Maggie Nelson
Paperback, 60 Pages, Published 2018 by Independently Published
ISBN-13: 978-1-73122-993-9, ISBN: 1-73122-993-3

"When you start having more bad days than good, that’s when you know it’s time to make a change. That’s when you know it’s time to burn those fats. And that’s exactly what you’re about to discover in this book. Over the last couple of years, there has been an increase in the popularity of intermittent fasting. However, there’s a lot of contradictory and even outright false information floating around about using intermittent fasting to b ..."






The Red Parts(1st Edition)
Autobiography of a Trial
by Maggie Nelson
Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2017 by Vintage
ISBN-13: 978-1-78470-579-4, ISBN: 1-78470-579-9

"One day in March 1969, twenty-three- year-old Jane Mixer was on her way home to tell her parents she was getting married. She had arranged for a ride through the campus bulletin board at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where she was one of a handful of pioneering women students at the law school. Her body was found the following morning just inside the gates of a small cemetery fourteen miles away, shot twice in the head and st ..."



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