![]() ![]() ? How can an experience so profoundly strange and wild. ![]() ![]() In her most recent work, The Argonauts, she writes: “Is there something inherently queer about pregnancy. She challenges this history by incisively exploring the female body, the queer family, gender, and sexual fluidity. In line with work such as Roland Barthes’ Mythologies, Virginia Woolf’s The Waves, and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictee, Maggie Nelson seeks an organic form that rouses us from the patriarchy of the straight white male avant-garde. She joins Claudia Rankine, Eileen Myles, and others in leading poetry with a strong current of genius. Nelson’s work, amongst the most daring and discussed in recent memory, challenges genre in necessary and urgent ways. Andy Sanchez An Interview with Maggie NelsonĮncountering Maggie Nelson’s writing is a bit like finding a silver dollar on a Manhattan sidewalk during rush hour: the loud step of bankers, the flapping of pigeon wings, the scrape of snow shovels on the con-Ĭrete-the strange coin shines and breaks through all the noise. ![]()
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