She cozies up to ideas unlike any other American writer.' - The Boston Globe Because of her dazzling sentences, I will read whatever the daredevil writes. 'Reading Maggie Nelson is like watching a high-wire act. 'Maggie Nelson slays entrenched notions of gender, marriage, and sexuality with lyricism, intellectual brass, and soul-ringing honesty in The Argonauts. Thinking and feeling are, for Nelson, mutually necessary processes the result is an exceptional portrait both of a romantic partnership and of the collaboration between Nelson's mind and heart.' - The New Yorker

' 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. '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 'Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts exists in its own universe. *Winner of the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism* To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice.

Maggie nelson the argonauts review