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Something Bright, Then Holes

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Something Bright, Then Holes

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Description

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 unsparing, crystalline lyrics honoring the conjoined forces of love and sorrow.

Whatever the style, the poems are linked by Nelson's singular poetic voice, as sly and exacting as it is raw. The collection is a testament to Nelson's steadfast commitment to chart the facts of feeling, whatever they are, and at whatever the cost.

Product details

Bloomsbury Academic Test
Published 15 Mar 2019
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Extent 80
ISBN 9781786995735
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Dimensions 198 x 129 mm
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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Author

Maggie Nelson

Maggie Nelson is a poet, critic, and award-winning…

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