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Something Bright, Then Holes

Something Bright, Then Holes

Maggie Nelson

(2019)

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Abstract

Maggie Nelson's third 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.


Maggie Nelson is a poet, critic, and award-winning author of The Argonauts, Bluets, The Art of Cruelty and The Red Parts. She lives in Los Angeles, California.


Table of Contents

Section Title Page Action Price
Cover\r Cover
Title Page i
Copyright ii
Contents iii
Something Bright, Then Holes\r 1
The Canal Diaries\r 3
The Hospital for Special Care\r 37
Something Bright, Then Holes\r 49
Acknowledgments 75
About Zed 76