Maggie Nelson

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 of a polluted urban canal, a harrowing long poem written at a friend's hospital bedside, and a series of unsparing, crystalline lyrics honoring the conjoined forces of love and sorrow.

"In this study, 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."--BOOK JACKET.

From the Publisher: 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 strangled. Six other young women were murdered around the same time, and it was assumed they had all been victims of alleged serial killer John Collins, who was convicted of one of these crimes not long after. Jane Mixer's death was long considered to be one of the infamous Michigan Murders, as they had come to be known. But officially, Jane's murder remained unsolved, and Maggie Nelson grew up haunted by the possibility that the killer of her mother's sister was still at large.^ In an instance of remarkable serendipity, more than three decades later, a 2004 DNA match led to the arrest of a new suspect for Jane's murder at precisely the same time that Nelson was set to publish a book of poetry about her aunt's life and death-a book she had been working on for years, and which assumed her aunt's case to be closed forever. The Red Parts chronicles the uncanny series of events that led to Nelson's interest in her aunt's death, the reopening of the case, the bizarre and brutal trial that ensued, and the effects these events had on the disparate group of people they brought together. But The Red Parts is much more than a "true crime" record of a murder, investigation, and trial. For into this story Nelson has woven a spare, poetic account of a girlhood and early adulthood haunted by loss, mortality, mystery, and betrayal, as well as a subtle but blistering look at the personal and political consequences of our cultural fixation on dead (white) women.^ The result is a stark, fiercely intelligent, and beautifully written memoir that poses vital questions about America's complex relationship to spectacles of violence and suffering, and that scrupulously explores the limits and possibilities of honesty, grief, empathy, and justice.

Reimagines the classic story of Tarzan from Jane's perspective, following the only woman student in Cambridge's medical program as she travels the world to prove the theories of Darwin and finds love with an extraordinary man in the jungles of West Africa.

Created in close collaboration with the artist, this volume offers an in-depth examination of twenty-five years of Rachel Harrison's room-sized installations, sculptures, drawings, photographs, and books through scholarly essays and a unique plate section. The essays cover topics ranging from the artist's earliest work to recent complex installations and sculptures, which often combine quotidian objects such as metal trash cans and with sculptural elements, including large painted concrete forms, that Harrison creates herself.

Discusses whether the brutal imagery present in 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 makes society more cruel.

2004. Maggie Nelson travaille à un recueil de poésie, Jane : A Murder, livre qui revisite l'histoire de sa tante Jane Mixer, assassinée en 1969 dans le Michigan. Trente-cinq ans plus tard, l'affaire est encore irrésolue. Tout va basculer lorsque l'auteur reçoit un appel de sa mère lui annonçant que la police a trouvé un nouveau suspect, un certain Leiterman, sexagénaire et infirmier à la retraite. Un procès aura lieu. Nelson va y assister avec sa mère et son grand-père, contraints de se confronter à nouveau aux images choquantes du meurtre et à un passé enfoui dans la mémoire familiale. Nelson n'oublie pas. Celle que son grand-père ne peut s'empêcher d'appeler " Jane " par mégarde se reconnaît dans cette femme qu'elle n'a pourtant jamais rencontrée, dont la vie et le destin font écho à ses propres questionnements. Avec Une Partie rouge, Maggie Nelson nous offre une méditation sur ces fantômes qui peuplent nos vies et que l'on tait. L'auteur crée une forme hybride et poétique qui impose une réalité brutale au silence pesant, la juge, la confronte et la fait plier par l'écriture. [Éditions du sous-sol]

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 artist Harry Dodge. This story, which includes the author’s account of falling in love with Dodge, as well as her journey to and through a pregnancy, is an intimate portrayal of the complexities and joys of (queer) family making. Writing in the spirit of public intellectuals like Susan Sontag and Roland Barthes, Nelson binds her personal experience to a rigorous exploration of what iconic theorists have said about sexuality, gender, and the vexed institutions of marriage and childrearing. Nelson’s insistence on radical individual freedom and the value of caretaking becomes the rallying cry for this thoughtful, unabashed, uncompromising book.