NELSON MAGGIE

Σπουδή στο μπλε
Το μπλε δεν είναι ένα χρώμα, είναι ένα σύνολο αποχρώσεων, αντικειμένων, διαθέσεων, αναφορών, αναμνήσεων, συναισθημάτων. Η Μάγκι Νέλσον, ερωτευμένη με το μπλε, περιπλανιέται στη μελαγχολία, την απώλεια και τον πόθο διερευνώντας τη σύνδεση του χρώματος με το σώμα και το πνεύμα. Συνομιλώντας με τον Γκαίτε, τον Βιττγκενστάιν και τον Μπαρτ, γράφει ένα λυρικό δοκίμιο για τον έρωτα που τελειώνει, για το σώμα που υποφέρει και για την ομορφιά ως καταφύγιο στον καιρό της μοναξιάς και της θλίψης. "Το να ερωτευτεί κανείς το μπλε μήπως σημαίνει λοιπόν ...
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Οι αργοναύτες
Οι Αργοναύτες ταξιδεύουν πάνω σε σώματα που διαρκώς αλλάζουν, μεταβάλλονται, μετασκευάζονται. Έτσι έρχονται αναπόφευκτα αντιμέτωποι με το παράδοξο της ταυτότητας: τι απομένει όταν όλα τα αρχικά υλικά έχουν αντικατασταθεί από καινούργια; Στους Αργοναύτες, η Μάγκι Νέλσον καταγράφει ένα τέτοιο ταξίδι, περιγράφοντας τον έρωτά της με τον τρανς καλλιτέχνη Χάρυ Ντοτζ, τη σχέση της με τον θετό της γιο, την εγκυμοσύνη και τη γέννα της, μετατρέποντας κάθε της προσωπική εμπειρία σε δημόσιο στοχασμό πάνω στα ζητήματα της σεξουαλικότητας και του φύλου,...
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(H/B) BLUETS
Bluets winds its way through depression, divinity, alcohol, and desire, visiting along the way with famous blue figures, including Joni Mitchell, Billie Holiday, Yves Klein, Leonard Cohen and Andy Warhol. While its narrator sets out to construct a sort of 'pillow book' about her lifelong obsession with the colour blue, she ends up facing down both the painful end of an affair and the grievous injury of a dear friend. The combination produces a raw, cerebral work devoted to the inextricability of pleasure and pain, and to the question of wh...
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(P/B) THE RED PARTS
In 1969, Jane Mixer, a first-year law student at the University of Michigan, posted a note on a student noticeboard to share a lift back to her hometown of Muskegon for spring break. She never made it: she was brutally murdered, her body found a few miles from campus the following day. The Red Parts is Maggie Nelson's singular account of her aunt Jane's death, and the trial that took place some 35 years afterward. Officially unsolved for decades, the case was reopened in 2004 after a DNA match identified a new suspect, who would soon be ar...
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(P/B) THE ARGONAUTS
A timely and genre-bending memoir that offers fresh and fierce reflections on motherhood, desire, identity and feminism. At the centre of The Argonauts is the love story between Maggie Nelson and the artist Harry Dodge, who is fluidly gendered. As Nelson undergoes the transformations of pregnancy, she explores the challenges and complexities of mothering and queer family making. Writing in the tradition of public intellectuals like Susan Sontag, Nelson uses arresting prose even as she questions the limits of language. The Argonauts is an i...
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(P/B) Ari Marcopoulos
Ari Marcopoulos is an inveterate maker of zines. This project collects in one volume for the first time a selection of zines by Marcopoulos, many never before released, providing a unique insight and overview into an essential part of this influential artist's daily practice. Often self-published or created in collaboration with boutique and independent publishers like ROMA, Dashwood Books, and PPP Editions, these informal, DIY-aesthetic creations function as sketchbook, diary, installation space, and a means of processing Marcopoulos's da...
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(P/B) THE ART OF CRUELTY
Writing in the tradition of Susan Sontag and Elaine Scarry, Maggie Nelson has emerged as one of our foremost cultural critics with this landmark work about representations of cruelty and violence in art. From Sylvia Plath's poetry to Francis Bacon's paintings, from the Saw franchise to Yoko Ono's performance art, Nelson's nuanced exploration across the artistic landscape ultimately offers a model of how one might balance strong ethical convictions with an equally strong appreciation for work that tests the limits of taste, taboo, and permi...
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(P/B) SOMETHING BRIGHT, THEN HOLES
Maggie Nelson's third 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 u...
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(P/B) THE LATEST WINTER
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. (From the publisher) "Maggie Nelson is one of the most electrifying writers at work in America today, among the sharpest and most supple thinkers of her generation". (Olivia Laing)...
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(P/B) DIE DEEPER INTO LIFE
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 Claudia Rankine, the two American poets who, in hybrid books bridging the divide between poetry, lyric pr...
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