An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family
Maggie Nelson'sThe Argonautsis 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. It binds an account of Nelson's relationship with her partner and a journey to and through a pregnancy to a rigorous exploration of sexuality, gender, and family. An insistence on radical individual freedom and the value of caretaking becomes the rallying cry for this thoughtful, unabashed, uncompromising book.
Maggie Nelsonis a poet, critic, and nonfiction author of books such as
The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning,
Bluets, and
Jane: A Murder. She teaches in the School of Critical Studies at CalArts and lives in Los Angeles, California.
ANew York Times Book Review 100 Best Books of the 21st Century
ALos Angeles Times 30 Best Nonfiction Books of the Last 30 Years
The Argonautsrevolutionized the way queer family-making is written about, talked about and comprehended. Michelle Tea,Los Angeles Times
[Nelson's] book-part memoir, part critical inquiry touching on desire, love, and family-is a superb exploration of the risk and the excitement of change. Thinking and feeling are, for Nelson, mutually necessary processes; the result is an exceptional portrait both of a romantic partnership and of the collaboration between Nelson's mind and heart. The New Yorker
Maggie Nelson slays entrenched notions of gender, marriage, and sexuality with lyricism, intellectual brass, and soul-ringing honesty inThe Argonauts. Vanity Fair
Reading Maggie Nelson is like watching a high-wire act. Her books are inspiring. . . . Because of her dazzling sentences, I will read whatever the daredevil writes. She cozies up to ideaslC"
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