Maggie Nelson

Kokoelma raikkaita kirjoituksia rakkaudesta, ystävyydestä, taiteesta ja musiikista kulttikirjailijan jäljittelemättömällä tyylillä: dialogisesti, uteliaasti ja tunteella. Kronologisesti järjestetty esseiden, keskusteluiden, arvioiden, muisti- ja muotokuvien kokoelma kahdenkymmenen vuoden varrelta kartoittaa valaisevasti Nelsonin yhteistyökuvioita, hänen saamiaan ja antamiaan vaikutteita sekä lähiystävien piiriä. Teos näyttää samalla kiinnostavasti, miten Nelsonin näkemykset, ajattelu ja kirjoittaminen ovat kehittyneet vuosien mittaan – sekä sen, kuinka merkityksellistä ja ravitsevaa taide on ihmisen hyvinvoinnille ja koko elämälle.”Syvällinen ja tarkkanäköinen (– –) Jokainen essee on läheltä katsomisen mestarinäyte. Nelsonin näkemykset ovat elintärkeitä ja ravitsevia.” – Booklist

It’s not the dream that matters, it’s the telling of the dream – the words you choose, the risks you take in externalising your mind This is a dreamlike portrait of a body in struggle to connect with itself and others. As the narrator contends with chronic pain, and with a pandemic raging in the background, she sets out to examine the literal and symbolic role of the mouth in the life of a writer. Merging dreams and dailies, Pathemata recounts the narrator’s tragicomic search to alleviate her suffering, a search that eventually becomes a reckoning with various forms of loss – the loss of intimacy, the loss of her father and the loss of a pivotal friend and mentor. In exacting, distilled prose, her account blurs the lines between embodied, unconscious and everyday life. With characteristic precision, humour and compassion, Nelson explores the limits of language to describe experience, while also offering a portrait of an unnerving and isolating time in our shared history. A stunning, original experiment in interiority by the adored author of Bluets and The Argonauts, Pathemata is a personal and poetic reckoning with pain and loss, both physical and emotional, as well as an uncanny meditation on love, affliction and resilience.

Mestarillisen ajattelijan lyyrinen paluu henkilökohtaiseen. Kertoja herää aamuisin tunteeseen siitä, että hänen suussaan on käyty sotaa. Kasvoihin koskee, särky säteilee silmään asti, eikä siltä saa rauhaa, ei ole saanut vuosiin. Krooninen kipu on kaikkinielevä voima, joka saa kääntymään sisäänpäin. Prosessi kiihtyy entisestään, kun pandemia ajaa ihmiset etäälle toisistaan. Maailma tuntuu pirstoutuvan unenomaiseksi kokoelmaksi palasia, joista ei hahmotu ehjää kuvaa. Miksei yksikään hoito auta? Kuinka kuvata ihmisen yhtäaikaista sitkeyttä ja haurautta? Kerta toisensa jälkeen kertoja törmää kielensä rajoihin. Rakastetun Maggie Nelsonin tarkaksi tislattu teksti maalaa kuvaa ihmisistä herkimmillään. Kipupäiväkirja kasvaa syvällekäyväksi pohdiskelmaksi ruumiillisuudesta, haavoittuvuudesta ja erilaisista menetyksistä.

A keen, ardent celebration of unbridled female ambition in the work of Taylor Swift and Sylvia Plath In The Slicks, Maggie Nelson positions culture-dominating pop superstar Taylor Swift and feminist cult icon Sylvia Plath as twin hosts of the female urge toward wanting hard, working hard, and pouring forth--and as twinned targets of patriarchy's ancient urge to disparage, trivialize, and discipline creative work by women rooted in autobiography and abundance. A buoyant melding of popular culture and literary criticism, The Slicks is a captivating and unexpected assessment of two iconic female artists by one of the most revered and influential critics of her generation.

In The Slicks, Maggie Nelson positions culture-dominating pop superstar Taylor Swift and feminist cult icon Sylvia Plath as twin hosts of the female urge toward wanting hard, working hard, and pouring forth – and as twinned targets of patriarchy’s ancient urge to disparage, trivialise and demonise such prolific, intimate output.The Slicks is a heady, rallying and unexpected melding of popular culture and literary criticism – an inspired treatise and unexpected celebration of two iconic female poets by one of the most revered and influential critics of her generation.

Et essay om kvindelig ambition og berømmelse. Med udgangspunkt i popsuperstjernen Taylor Swift og det feministiske kultikon Sylvia Plath udforsker Maggie Nelson deres mange fællestræk; deres uhæmmede ambitioner, deres trang til hårdt arbejde og til at øse ud af deres eget liv – og patriarkatets urgamle trang til at nedgøre, banalisere og disciplinere kvindelige kunstnere der bruger af deres eget liv i kunsten. En generøs og veloplagt blanding af populærkultur og litteraturkritik og en hyldest til to ikoniske kvindelige kunstnere fra en af de skarpeste essayister i sin generation.

The 25th anniversary edition of Michelle Tea's classic coming-of-age story, now with a foreword by Maggie Nelson, award-winning author of The Argonauts 'Hilarious, euphoric, perspicacious and punk - the book that showed so many of us how writing can be real' Jeremy Atherton Lin, author of Gay Bar 'One of the few truly life changing books I've encountered' Torrey Peters, bestselling author of Detransition, Baby Fleeing Tucson and her troublesome on-and-off ex-girlfriend, Michelle lands in queer San Francisco's riotous underbelly, stumbling through her early twenties in a haze of nightlife, drug adventures, scams and a string of hookups, break-ups and make-ups. As butches and dykes spin in and out of her orbit, she considers the force and casual cruelty of their desires and her own. Heady, beer-sticky and brimming with life, Valencia is a sharply observed and piercingly funny chronicle of a year lived close to the bone. 'If you want to know how dangerous and great and awful it is to be a girl, you'll scarf Valencia right up' Eileen Myles, author of Chelsea Girls 'Michelle Tea is an intoxicating writer, delivering sentences that land with the snap and force of a punch' Guardian

A CAREER-SPANNING COLLECTION OF INSPIRING, REVELROUS ESSAYS ABOUT ART AND ARTISTS'Like Love may be one of the most movingly specific, the most lovingly unruly celebrations of the ethics of friendship we have' Guardian'Incisive, smart and witty, it will leave you looking and love and life anew' iLike Love is a momentous, raucous collection of essays drawn from twenty years of Maggie Nelson’s brilliant work. These profiles, reviews, remembrances, tributes and critical essays, as well as several conversations with friends and idols, bring to life Nelson’s passion for dialogue and dissent. The range of subjects is wide – from Prince to Carolee Schneemann to Kara Walker to Bjork – but certain themes recur: intergenerational exchange; love and friendship; feminist and queer issues, especially as they shift over time; subversion, transgression and perversity; and the fruits and follies of a life spent devoted to making.The collection is a portrait of a time, an anarchic party rich with wild guests, a window into Nelson’s own development as a writer, and a testament to the profound sustenance offered by art and artists.‘Maggie Nelson is one of the most unique voices in non-fiction: enquiring, political, lyrically dazzling, empathetic’ Sinéad Gleeson

It’s not the dream that matters, it’s the telling of the dream – the words you choose, the risks you take in externalising your mindThis is a dreamlike portrait of a body in struggle to connect with itself and others. As the narrator contends with chronic pain, and with a pandemic raging in the background, she sets out to examine the literal and symbolic role of the mouth in the life of a writer.Merging dreams and dailies, Pathemata recounts the narrator’s tragicomic search to alleviate her suffering, a search that eventually becomes a reckoning with various forms of loss – the loss of intimacy, the loss of her father and the loss of a pivotal friend and mentor. In exacting, distilled prose, her account blurs the lines between embodied, unconscious and everyday life.With characteristic precision, humour and compassion, Nelson explores the limits of language to describe experience, while also offering a portrait of an unnerving and isolating time in our shared history. A stunning, original experiment in interiority by the adored author of Bluets and The Argonauts, Pathemata is a personal and poetic reckoning with pain and loss, both physical and emotional, as well as an uncanny meditation on love, affliction and resilience.

A career-spanning collection of inspiring, revelrous essays about art and artistsLike Love is a momentous, raucous collection of essays drawn from twenty years of Maggie Nelson's brilliant work. These profiles, reviews, remembrances, tributes, and critical essays, as well as several conversations with friends and idols, bring to life Nelson's passion for dialogue and dissent. The range of subjects is wide--from Prince to Carolee Schneemann to Matthew Barney to Lhasa de Sela to Kara Walker--but certain themes recur: intergenerational exchange; love and friendship; feminist and queer issues, especially as they shift over time; subversion, transgression, and perversity; the roles of the critic and of language in relation to visual and performance arts; forces that feed or impede certain bodies and creators; and the fruits and follies of a life spent devoted to making. Arranged chronologically, Like Love shows the writing, thinking, feeling, reading, looking, and conversing that occupied Nelson while writing iconic books such as Bluets and The Argonauts. As such, it is a portrait of a time, an anarchic party rich with wild guests, a window into Nelson's own development, and a testament to the profound sustenance offered by art and artists.

A CAREER-SPANNING COLLECTION OF INSPIRING, REVELROUS ESSAYS ABOUT ART AND ARTISTS'Like Love may be one of the most movingly specific, the most lovingly unruly celebrations of the ethics of friendship we have' Guardian'Incisive, smart and witty, it will leave you looking and love and life anew' iLike Love is a momentous, raucous collection of essays drawn from twenty years of Maggie Nelson’s brilliant work. These profiles, reviews, remembrances, tributes and critical essays, as well as several conversations with friends and idols, bring to life Nelson’s passion for dialogue and dissent. The range of subjects is wide – from Prince to Carolee Schneemann to Kara Walker to Bjork – but certain themes recur: intergenerational exchange; love and friendship; feminist and queer issues, especially as they shift over time; subversion, transgression and perversity; and the fruits and follies of a life spent devoted to making.The collection is a portrait of a time, an anarchic party rich with wild guests, a window into Nelson’s own development as a writer, and a testament to the profound sustenance offered by art and artists.‘Maggie Nelson is one of the most unique voices in non-fiction: enquiring, political, lyrically dazzling, empathetic’ Sinéad Gleeson

A career-spanning collection of inspiring, revelrous essays about art and artistsLike Love is a momentous, raucous collection of essays drawn from twenty years of Maggie Nelson's brilliant work. These profiles, reviews, remembrances, tributes, and critical essays, as well as several conversations with friends and idols, bring to life Nelson's passion for dialogue and dissent. The range of subjects is wide--from Prince to Carolee Schneemann to Matthew Barney to Lhasa de Sela to Kara Walker--but certain themes recur: intergenerational exchange; love and friendship; feminist and queer issues, especially as they shift over time; subversion, transgression, and perversity; the roles of the critic and of language in relation to visual and performance arts; forces that feed or impede certain bodies and creators; and the fruits and follies of a life spent devoted to making. Arranged chronologically, Like Love shows the writing, thinking, feeling, reading, looking, and conversing that occupied Nelson while writing iconic books such as Bluets and The Argonauts. As such, it is a portrait of a time, an anarchic party rich with wild guests, a window into Nelson's own development, and a testament to the profound sustenance offered by art and artists.

Vapaudesta puhutaan paljon, monin erilaisin tavoin ja monissa eri yhteyksissä: on yksilön henkilö- kohtaisen vapautumisen hetkiä, sananvapautta ja ihmisoikeuksia, poliittista retoriikkaa, rajojen rikkomista. Arjessa vapaus on jotain, mihin länsimainen ihminen havahtuu vasta, kun menettää sen.Uudessa teoksessa Maggie Nelson pohtii, mitä kaikkea vapauden monimutkaisella käsitteellä tarkoitetaan neljällä erilaisella inhimillisen kokemuksen alueella: taiteen tai seksuaalisuuden piirissä sekä silloin, kun puhutaan päihteistä tai ilmastosta.Nelson käyttää teoksessaan suvereenisti laajaa tutkimusmateriaalia erilaisista teoreettisista viite- kehyksistä popkulttuuriin ja arkikokemuksiin, tutkii, kysyy, ajattelee ääneen ja kutsuu lukijan ajattelemaan kanssaan. Kirjoittaminen itsessään on vapauden ilmaus, joka vahvistaa, rohkaisee - ojentuu toista kohti.Vapaudesta on raikas, voimaannuttava ja välttämätön teos tässä ajassa.

Sinelmien kertoja haluaa rakentaa sinistä väriä koskevan intohimonsa ja pakkomielteensä ympärille eräänlaista henkilökohtaista päiväkirjaa tai ”tyynynaluskirjaa”. Kirjoittamisen prosessi palauttaa hänet myös kivuliaan eron ja läheisen ystävän vaikean vammautumisen aiheuttamiin tunteisiin. Tuloksena on älykäs ja raaka tutkielma nautinnon ja tuskan yhteenkietoutuneisuudesta ja siitä, millainen merkitys esteettisellä ilolla voi olla sydänsurujen tai syvän murheen kohdatessa. Sinelmiä kuljettaa lukijan läpi masennuksen, päihteidenhimon ja seksuaalisen halun, kohti jumalallista, pysähtyen matkan varrella kuuluisien sinisen mestarien äärelle: kirjassa tavataan Joni Mitchell, Billie Holiday, Yves Klein, Leonard Cohen ja Andy Warhol.Syvällinen, sivistynyt ja kirkkaasti ajateltu Sinelmiä on muodostunut maailmalla kulttiteokseksi, joka annetaan lahjaksi rakastumisen huumassa tai yhtä hyvin lohduksi sydämensä särkeneille.