Nelson's new book, The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning, emanates from a similarly broad subject. It was an audacious argument, but Nelson's unique style of meandering through literary texts and personal memories made it work she is proof of the theory that no idea is too strange if placed in the hands of an expert stylist. Nelson's take on the color was that it encapsulated the entire vivid range of human joy and suffering. Her last book, Bluets, was a stunning collection of lyrical musings on the color blue in art history. She is a stellar poet (she just won an NEA fellowship for poetry), a respected writing teacher at storied institutions like Wesleyan and CalArts and a cult-hit author whose elegant volumes of essays defy easy classification. Maggie Nelson is the type of intellectual polymath one doesn't see too much of these days. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title The Art of Cruelty Subtitle A Reckoning Author Maggie Nelson
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |