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Abstract
‘Maggie Nelson is one of the most electrifying writers at work in America today, among the sharpest and most supple thinkers of her generation'
Olivia Laing
In this, her second anthology of poetry, Maggie Nelson experiments with poetic forms long and short as she charts intimate landscapes, including the poet’s enmeshment in a beloved city—New York—before and after the events of 9/11. The poems of The Latest Winter are rich with wit, melancholy, terror, curiosity, and love.
Maggie Nelson is a poet, critic, and award-winning author of The Argonauts, Bluets, The Art of Cruelty, Jane: A Murder and The Red Parts. She lives in Los Angeles, California.
‘Nelson’s poems move fast, think on their feet, hit and run with equal parts of humor; glamor and horror. In every way, she is a thoroughly original voice for our time.’
Elaine Equi
Praise for The Argonauts:
‘I read The Argonauts in one breathless, tearful, mind-blown day and I'm still recovering’
Miranda July
‘Nelson's writing is fluid – to read her story is to drift dreamily among her thoughts’
Huffington Post
‘Nelson is so outrageously gifted a writer and thinker’
Washington Post
‘Maggie Nelson writes like no one else on the planet’
Jezebel
‘Maggie Nelson [is] so much better than anything I've read for a long, long time’
Karl Ove Knausgaard
‘One of the great gifts of Nelson’s writing is how it embodies the process of her mind at work’
Los Angeles Review of Books
Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cover | Cover | ||
| Half Title\r | i | ||
| About the Author | ii | ||
| Title Page\r | iii | ||
| Copyright | iv | ||
| Dedication | v | ||
| Table of Contents | vii | ||
| Acknowledgements | ix | ||
| I. | 1 | ||
| The Poem I Was Working On Before September 11, 2001 | 3 | ||
| Twin of sheen | 8 | ||
| Brightness | 9 | ||
| 1999 | 10 | ||
| Train to Coney Island | 13 | ||
| Blockbusters | 14 | ||
| the future of poetry | 15 | ||
| my life as an exchange student | 17 | ||
| Holed Up | 19 | ||
| Juliet | 20 | ||
| Lucia | 22 | ||
| Poem Written in Someone Else’s Office | 23 | ||
| Goodbye to All That | 29 | ||
| II. | 31 | ||
| 29 | 33 | ||
| Imagine | 35 | ||
| Birthday Poem | 36 | ||
| Anatomy | 41 | ||
| Love | 43 | ||
| Julie | 44 | ||
| Aubade | 47 | ||
| Love | 48 | ||
| Words to a Woman | 49 | ||
| Sunday | 54 | ||
| Maine | 56 | ||
| Valentine | 58 | ||
| Death Canoe | 59 | ||
| III. | 61 | ||
| The Latest Winter | 63 | ||
| Last Day at the Office | 69 | ||
| Motor Inn | 70 | ||
| Walk on Campus | 71 | ||
| 5 Huber | 73 | ||
| The Earth in April | 74 | ||
| Spring in the Small Park | 75 | ||
| Goodbye at the start of summer | 76 | ||
| July | 77 | ||
| Summer Rain | 78 | ||
| Kaspar Hauser | 80 | ||
| ★ | 81 | ||
| Report from the Field | 82 | ||
| Dear Lily | 85 | ||
| The Future | 87 | ||
| December 23, 2001 | 89 | ||
| In a war | 90 | ||
| Silence | 91 | ||
| Dailies | 93 | ||
| About Zed | 96 |