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It binds an account of Nelson's relationship with her partner and a journey to and through a pregnancy to a rigorous exploration of sexuality, gender, and \"family.\" An insistence on radical individual freedom and the value of caretaking becomes the rallying cry for this thoughtful, unabashed, uncompromising book.","brand":"Graywolf Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53537228357998,"sku":"9781555977351","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0984\/1007\/0382\/files\/imageloader_669717de-ac9c-4e54-ba6b-28c708e6d31c.jpg?v=1774453048"},{"product_id":"the-red-parts-autobiography-of-a-trial","title":"The Red Parts: Autobiography of a Trial","description":"\u003cp\u003eLate in 2004, Maggie Nelson was looking forward to the publication of her book \u003ci\u003eJane: A Murder\u003c\/i\u003e, a narrative in verse about the life and death of her aunt, who had been murdered thirty-five years before. 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Over the months that followed, Nelson found herself attending the trial with her mother and reflecting anew on the aura of dread and fear that hung over her family and childhood--an aura that derived not only from the terrible facts of her aunt's murder but also from her own complicated journey through sisterhood, daughterhood, and girlhood. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Red Parts\u003c\/i\u003e is a memoir, an account of a trial, and a provocative essay that interrogates the American obsession with violence and missing white women, and that scrupulously explores the nature of grief, justice, and empathy.","brand":"Graywolf Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53537229406574,"sku":"9781555977368","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0984\/1007\/0382\/files\/imageloader_cd76b9f3-fe43-43c2-969a-e75da1c5471b.jpg?v=1774453065"},{"product_id":"like-love-essays-and-conversations","title":"Like Love: Essays and Conversations","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA career-spanning collection of inspiring, revelrous essays about art and artists\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLike Love\u003c\/i\u003e is a momentous, raucous collection of essays drawn from twenty years of Maggie Nelson's brilliant work. These profiles, reviews, remembrances, tributes, and critical essays, as well as several conversations with friends and idols, bring to life Nelson's passion for dialogue and dissent. The range of subjects is wide--from Prince to Carolee Schneemann to Matthew Barney to Lhasa de Sela to Kara Walker--but certain themes recur: intergenerational exchange; love and friendship; feminist and queer issues, especially as they shift over time; subversion, transgression, and perversity; the roles of the critic and of language in relation to visual and performance arts; forces that feed or impede certain bodies and creators; and the fruits and follies of a life spent devoted to making. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eArranged chronologically, \u003ci\u003eLike Love\u003c\/i\u003e shows the writing, thinking, feeling, reading, looking, and conversing that occupied Nelson while writing iconic books such as \u003ci\u003eBluets\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Argonauts.\u003c\/i\u003e As such, it is a portrait of a time, an anarchic party rich with wild guests, a window into Nelson's own development, and a testament to the profound sustenance offered by art and artists.","brand":"Graywolf Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53537233011054,"sku":"9781644453360","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0984\/1007\/0382\/files\/imageloader_53a1e1be-e739-4852-bf09-4ab15d25abc3.jpg?v=1774453106"},{"product_id":"the-slicks-on-sylvia-plath-and-taylor-swift","title":"The Slicks: On Sylvia Plath and Taylor Swift","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA keen, ardent celebration of unbridled female ambition in the work of Taylor Swift and Sylvia Plath\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Slicks\u003c\/i\u003e, Maggie Nelson positions culture-dominating pop superstar Taylor Swift and feminist cult icon Sylvia Plath as twin hosts of the female urge toward wanting hard, working hard, and pouring forth--and as twinned targets of patriarchy's ancient urge to disparage, trivialize, and discipline creative work by women rooted in autobiography and abundance. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA buoyant melding of popular culture and literary criticism, \u003ci\u003eThe Slicks \u003c\/i\u003eis a captivating and unexpected assessment of two iconic female artists by one of the most revered and influential critics of her generation.","brand":"Graywolf Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53616414654830,"sku":"9781644454084","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0984\/1007\/0382\/files\/imageloader_e99ca52c-eabf-414c-ad27-222649dbc614.jpg?v=1775961045"},{"product_id":"on-freedom-four-songs-of-care-and-constraint","title":"On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed a Most Anticipated\/Best Book of the Month by: NPR * \u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e * \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e * \u003ci\u003eWashington Post \u003c\/i\u003e* \u003ci\u003eVulture \u003c\/i\u003e* \u003ci\u003eWomen's Wear Daily\u003c\/i\u003e * \u003ci\u003eBustle\u003c\/i\u003e * LitHub * The Millions * \u003ci\u003eVogue \u003c\/i\u003e* \u003ci\u003eNylon \u003c\/i\u003e* \u003ci\u003eShondaland\u003c\/i\u003e * \u003ci\u003eChicago Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e * \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e * \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e * \u003ci\u003eKirkus\u003c\/i\u003e * \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSo often deployed as a jingoistic, even menacing rallying cry, or limited by a focus on passing moments of liberation, the rhetoric of freedom both rouses and repels. 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Though officially unsolved, Jane's murder was apparently the third in a series of seven brutal rape-murders in the area between 1967 and 1969. 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Equal parts a meditation on violence (serial, sexual violence in particular), and a conversation between the living and the dead, \u003ci\u003eJane\u003c\/i\u003e's powerful and disturbing subject matter, combined with its innovations in genre, shows its readers what poetry is capable of--what kind of stories it can tell, and how it can tell them.","brand":"Soft Skull","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54384118071662,"sku":"9781593766580","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0984\/1007\/0382\/files\/imageloader_92d7a747-7eab-4569-b9ad-7cf381a6da74.jpg?v=1784902641"},{"product_id":"the-art-of-cruelty","title":"The Art of Cruelty","description":"\u003cp\u003eWriting in the tradition of Susan Sontag and Elaine Scarry, Maggie Nelson has emerged as one of our foremost cultural critics with this landmark work about representations of cruelty and violence in art. 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