Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color . . .
A lyrical, philosophical, and often explicit exploration of personal suffering and the limitations of vision and love, as refracted through the color blue. WithBluets, Maggie Nelson has entered the pantheon of brilliant lyric essayists.
Maggie Nelsonis the author of numerous books of poetry and nonfiction, includingSomething Bright, Then Holes(Soft Skull Press, 2007) andWomen, the New York School, and Other True Abstractions(University of Iowa Press, 2007). She lives in Los Angeles and teaches at the California Institute of the Arts.
Maggie Nelson is widely and critically well-regarded as a poet, prose writer and art critic; her works spans various audiences and communities, in academia, art circles and among readers. Maggie Nelson and her work have been profiled in such periodicals as Artforum, Bookforum, the Boston Globe, Modern Painters, The New York Times Book Review and the Village Voice, among numerous other high-profile venues. Bluets is the perfect title for course adoption in the burgeoning MFA/academic field of creative non-fiction/literary essay writing.
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As with Maggie Nelson's previous non-Wave titles, galley and review copies of Bluets will be sent to all major media and literary outlets, as well as high-profile visual art and popular culture periodicals. Nelson will be giving readings and talks in conjunction with Bluets throughout the Fall of 2009, through reading series, academic and visual art institutions. She plans to give talks in conjunction also with visual artists at various galleries and lectures series through the country.
Praise for Previous Work: A genre buster with an engaging prose style, Nelson interweaves psychoanalysis, personal memoir and true-crime tidbits into a darkly intellĂ
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