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Maggie Nelson


Born
San Francisco, California, The United States
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Maggie Nelson is the author of nine books of poetry and prose, many of which have become cult classics defying categorization. Her nonfiction titles include the National Book Critics Circle Award winner and New York Times bestseller The Argonauts (Graywolf Press, 2015), The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning (Norton, 2011; a New York Times Notable Book of the Year), Bluets (Wave Books, 2009; named by Bookforum as one of the top 10 best books of the past 20 years), The Red Parts (Free Press, 2007; reissued by Graywolf, 2016), and Women, the New York School, and Other True Abstractions (U of Iowa Press, 2007). Her poetry titles include Something Bright, Then Holes (Soft Skull Press, 2007) and Jane: A Murder (Soft Skull, 2005; finalist for the PEN/ M ...more

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The Argonauts

4.02 avg rating — 50,648 ratings — published 2015 — 63 editions
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Bluets

4.08 avg rating — 48,622 ratings — published 2009 — 55 editions
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The Red Parts

4.04 avg rating — 8,975 ratings — published 2007 — 28 editions
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Jane: A Murder

4.31 avg rating — 5,495 ratings — published 2005 — 18 editions
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The Art of Cruelty: A Recko...

4.23 avg rating — 3,449 ratings — published 2011 — 16 editions
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On Freedom: Four Songs of C...

4.01 avg rating — 2,522 ratings — published 2021 — 35 editions
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Something Bright, Then Holes

4.05 avg rating — 1,872 ratings — published 2003 — 12 editions
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The Latest Winter

3.95 avg rating — 520 ratings — published 2003 — 7 editions
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Shiner

3.68 avg rating — 511 ratings — published 2001 — 9 editions
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Like Love: Essays and Conve...

3.76 avg rating — 264 ratings — published 2024 — 4 editions
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Quotes by Maggie Nelson  (?)
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“I want you to know, if you ever read this, there was a time when I would rather have had you by my side than any one of these words; I would rather have had you by my side than all the blue in the world.

But now you are talking as if love were a consolation. Simone Weil warned otherwise. 'Love is not consolation,' she wrote. 'It is light.'

All right then, let me try to rephrase. When I was alive, I aimed to be a student not of longing but of light.”
Maggie Nelson, Bluets

“Mostly I have felt myself becoming a servant of sadness. I am still looking for the beauty in that.”
Maggie Nelson, Bluets

“Empirically speaking, we are made of star stuff. Why aren’t we talking more about that?”
Maggie Nelson, The Argonauts

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