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Maggie Nelson

Something Bright, Then Holes

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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.
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38 printed pages
Original publication
2015
Publication year
2015
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Quotes

  • Andrinahas quoted8 years ago
    How did it come
    to this, and does it matter? We aim
    to be gentle, but end up cruel
  • Gerardo Arteagahas quoted4 years ago
    It was there
    that I said a prayer
    to the brown and blue notebooks
    of your arms.
  • Gerardo Arteagahas quoted4 years ago
    We share a brightness
    It’s called death
    in life

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