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«Bluets» es un híbrido experimental que oscila entre el ensayo lírico y la prosa poética para construir una reflexión personal y filosófica sobre el color azul, los amores perdidos, el dolor y la soledad. A través de 240 fragmentos sin conexión aparente entre sí, pero que poco a poco van revelando los enlaces polifónicos que se producen al interior de toda red (Guattari), la autora construye una escritura rizomática en la que las palabras, la tinta azul y su pensamiento parecen fluir como si hubiesen sido escritos en el agua (Keats); reflexiones que transitan desde aspectos muy personales de su vida (su depresión, sus rupturas amorosas, la paraplejia de una amiga tras un accidente, una tarde de intenso sexo en una habitación del Hotel Chelsea) hasta multitud de obras artísticas.

Entre la memoria y el ensayo, entre la confesión íntima y la reflexión sobre el lenguaje, este es un libro capital de la temática LGTB. Premio de la Crítica de Estados Unidos en 2015. De una honestidad implacable, en esta memoria y a la vez ensayo, Maggie Nelson narra su singular y entrañable historia de amor con Harry Dogde, un artista transgénero, y cómo, en un contexto donde aún se debate la ley de unión civil entre homosexuales, intentan construir juntos una familia. En la tradición de intelectuales como Susan Sontag y Roland Barthes, Nelson entrelaza su propia experiencia con la teoría icónica, para explorar distintas construcciones culturales en torno a las nociones de identidad, sexualidad, género, maternidad y matrimonio. «Una de las más electrificantes escritoras norteamericanas de hoy […]. Fusionando lo que en otras manos podrían ser áridas teorías o confesiones sensibleras, Nelson crea un vigoroso lenguaje». Olivia Laing, The Guardian

'Maggie Nelson és una de les escriptores més electrificants del panorama nord-americà contemporani, una de les pensadores més incisives i àgils de la seva generació', Olivia Laing La retòrica de la llibertat, tan sovint lligada al ultranacionalisme i als crits amenaçadors a favor de la unitat, o simplement centrada en moments puntuals i èpics d'alliberament col·lectiu, pot arribar a encendre tant com a crear rebuig. Per a uns és la clau de la nostra autonomia, justícia i benestar; per a d'altres, la paraula llibertat ha perdut vigència i sentit. L'obsessió amb el concepte ens fa millors, i més lliures, o, en canvi, és el reflex d'un nihilisme galopant? A partir de material molt divers, des de teoria crítica fins a cultura popular passant per les intimitats i intercanvis de la nostra vida diària, Nelson en planteja les complexitats en quatre blocs separats —l'art, el sexe, les drogues i el clima— i analitza com pensem, experimentem o parlem de la llibertat segons les circumstàncies que ens envolten o les condicions del nostre dia. Per a Nelson, el fet de reflexionar públicament sobre temes tan candents com el llegat pertorbador de l'alliberament sexual, les paradoxes doloroses de l'addicció o la desesperació davant de la crisi climàtica és un exercici de llibertat, una manera de bastir fortalesa, coratge i companyonia entre les persones. Sobre la llibertat, que combina experiència pròpia i una sòlida base intel·lectual, és un llibre estimulant i necessari.'Precís i atmosfèric, Sobre la llibertat és una sacsejada intel·lectual contundent combinada amb una exploració dels matisos… Maggie Nelson es pregunta com podem viure en un món oprimit, al costat de gent amb ideologia cruel i violenta, sense rendir-nos nosaltres també a la desesperació o la violència', Annalisa Quinn, NPR.org

Bluets és una obra narrativa, filosòfica i sovint explícita sobre el patiment personal i les limitacions de l'amor, tot passat pel filtre del color blau. A través de dos-cents quaranta textos breus i aparentment inconnexos, i amb referències constants a personatges importants com Joni Mitchell, Billie Holiday, Leonard Cohen i Andy Warhol, Maggie Nelson ens presenta un llibre que balla entre l'assaig líric i la prosa poètica i que, molt més enllà d'una exploració personal del color blau, és una exploració de la depressió, del dolor per una història que s'acaba, de l'alcohol i del desig, de la solitud, dels amors perduts i el mal terrible que provoquen el desamor i la pèrdua. Bluets és un conjunt visceral i acuradament lúcid, una proesa finíssima i gràcil d'innovació literària.

Els argonautes és un llibre inclassificable i inspirador que barreja autobiografia, vida personal i teoria acadèmica i ofereix una reflexió intel·ligent, apassionada i moderna sobre el desig, la identitat i les limitacions i possibilitats de l'amor i del llenguatge. Al cor del llibre, una història d'amor: la relació entre l'autora i l'artista transgènere Harry Dodge, l'enamorament i el sexe, les dificultats per embarassar-se, les injeccions de testosterona i les converses infinites, la complicitat inquebrantable i, finalment, l'embaràs i les complexitats i alegries de formar una família queer. Hereva d'intel·lectuals reputats com Susan Sontag o Roland Barthes, Nelson enllaça la seva pròpia experiència amb una rigorosa exploració de les teories més icòniques sobre sexualitat, gènere, maternitat i matrimoni i converteix aquest assaig contundent i il·luminador en un crit eixordador a favor de la llibertat individual més radical i en una reivindicació imprescindible de l'amor i la importància de tenir cura els uns dels altres. Guanyadora del premi National Book Circle Award 2015'Una de las escriptores nordamericanes més electrificants d'avui en dia […]. Fusionant el que, en altres mans, podrien ser teories espesses i confessions sentimentals, Nelson crea un llenguatge poderós'. Olivia Laing, The Guardian

Jane tells the spectral story of the life and death of Maggie Nelson's aunt Jane, who was murdered in 1969 while a first-year law student at the University of Michigan. Though officially unsolved, Jane's murder was apparently the third in a series of seven brutal rape-murders in the area between 1967 and 1969. Nelson was born a few years after Jane's death, and the narrative is suffused with the long shadow her murder cast over both the family and her psyche.Jane explores the nature of this haunting incident via a collage of poetry, prose, dream-accounts, and documentary sources, including local and national newspapers, related “true crime” books such as The Michigan Murders and Killer Among Us, and fragments from Jane's own diaries written when she was 13 and 21. Its eight sections cover Jane's childhood and early adulthood, her murder and its investigation, the direct and diffuse effect of her death on Nelson's girlhood and sisterhood, and a trip to Michigan Nelson took with her mother (Jane's sister) to retrace the path of Jane's final hours.

'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 LaingIn 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.

Before Maggie Nelson's name became synonymous with such genre-defying, binary-slaying writing as The Argonauts and The Art of Cruelty, this collection of poetry introduced readers to a singular voice in the making: exhilarating, fiercely vulnerable, intellectually curious, and one of a kind.These days/the world seems to split up/into those who need to dredge/and those who shrug their shoulders/and say, It's just something/that happened.While Maggie Nelson refers here to a polluted urban waterway, the Gowanus Canal, these words could just as easily describe Nelson's incisive approach to desire, heartbreak, and emotional excavation in Something Bright, Then Holes. Whether writing from the debris-strewn shores of a contaminated canal or from the hospital room of a friend, Nelson charts each emotional landscape she encounters with unparalleled precision and empathy. Since its publication in 2007, the collection has proven itself to be both a record of a singular vision in the making as well as a timeless meditation on love, loss, and―perhaps most frightening of all―freedom.

Este livro de Maggie Nelson, vencedor do National Book Critics Circle Award em 2015 e escolhido como um dos livros do ano pelo New York Times, é uma autobiografia que subverte o gênero. Uma obra de'autoteoria'que traz ideias atuais, destemidas e oportunas sobre desejo e identidade, sobre as limitações e as possibilidades do amor e da linguagem. Seu tema central é um romance: o relacionamento da autora com o artista Harry Dodge. Ela narra a experiência de se apaixonar por Dodge, uma pessoa de gênero fluido, bem como o caminho percorrido até e durante sua gravidez. No rastro de intelectuais populares como Susan Sontag e Roland Barthes, a autora atrela sua experiência pessoal a uma análise rigorosa do que importantes teóricos disseram sobre sexualidade, gênero, casamento e educação infantil.

A groundbreaking memoir that offers fresh and fierce reflections on motherhood, desire, gender, 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 intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of love, language, and family.

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. 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.

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. With Bluets, Maggie Nelson has entered the pantheon of brilliant lyric essayists.Maggie Nelson is the author of numerous books of poetry and nonfiction, including Something Bright, Then Holes (Soft Skull Press, 2007) and Women, 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.

Part elegy, part true crime story, this memoir-in-verse from the author of the award-winning The Argonauts expands the notion of how we tell stories and what form those stories take through the story of a murdered woman and the mystery surrounding her last hours.Jane tells the spectral story of the life and death of Maggie Nelson's aunt Jane, who was murdered in 1969 while a first-year law student at the University of Michigan. Though officially unsolved, Jane's murder was apparently the third in a series of seven brutal rape-murders in the area between 1967 and 1969. Nelson was born a few years after Jane's death, and the narrative is suffused with the long shadow her murder cast over both the family and her psyche.Exploring the nature of this haunting incident via a collage of poetry, prose, dream-accounts, and documentary sources, including local and national newspapers, related “true crime” books such as The Michigan Murders and Killer Among Us, and fragments from Jane's own diaries written when she was 13 and 21, its eight sections cover Jane's childhood and early adulthood, her murder and its investigation, the direct and diffuse effect of her death on Nelson's girlhood and sisterhood, and a trip to Michigan Nelson took with her mother (Jane's sister) to retrace the path of Jane's final hours.Each piece in Jane has its own form, and the movement from each piece to the next--along with the white space that surrounds each fragment--serve as important fissures, disrupting the tabloid, “page-turner” quality of the story, and eventually returning the reader to deeper questions about girlhood, empathy, identification, and the essentially unknowable aspects of another's life and death. Equal parts a meditation on violence (serial, sexual violence in particular), and a conversation between the living and the dead, Jane's powerful and disturbing subject matter, combined with its innovations in genre, shows its readers what poetry is capable of--what kind of stories it can tell, and how it can tell them.