![]() ![]() ![]() “ book-part memoir, part critical inquiry touching on desire, love, and family-is a superb exploration of the risk and the excitement of change. Her book is an elegant, powerful, deeply discursive examination of gender, sexuality, queerness, pregnancy and motherhood, all conveyed in language that is intellectually potent and poetically expressive.” -Michael Lindgren, The Washington Post Nelson is so outrageously gifted a writer and thinker that The Argonauts seems to operate in some astral dimension where the rules of normal physics have been suspended. My first reaction to Nelson’s book was awestruck silence, such as one might experience when confronted with some dazzling supernatural phenomenon. “Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts exists in its own universe. “It’s Nelson’s articulation of her many selves-the poet who writes prose the memoirist who considers the truth specious the essayist whose books amount to a kind of fairy tale, in which the protagonist goes from darkness to light, and then falls in love with a singular knight-that makes her readers feel hopeful.” -Hilton Als, The New Yorker ![]() *Winner of the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism* St Joseph's University (Brooklyn Voices Series). ![]()
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