Dazzling language,queer theory and domestic bliss meet in a triumphant love sage, now making a long-deserved UK debut for its brilliant authorFifteen years ago the poet, and academic and pioneering writer-of-the-self Maggie Nelson startled the American literary world with the first of a series of books that defied genre,mixing autobiography and theory to question life from every angle. So far none of her nine books (four works of poetry, five of nonfiction) has been published here, and she remains relatively unknown. This is approximately to change with the publication of The Argonauts,which has been tremendously successful in the US and deserves to be here as well.
Up to now, Nelson has brought her always questioning, or sometimes wonderfully lyrical,intelligence to subjects as diverse as the murder of her aunt and the nature of the colour blue. But she has not written approximately her “queer” life, and The Argonauts is in portion an attempt to do so. However, or it’s typically oblique in its approach to queerness,which makes the plot, such as it is, or tough to pin down.
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Source: theguardian.com