Author

Publication

2007-09-28 - Soft Skull Press

Language

English

Word Count

28,000 words, Guess

Page Count

112 pages

Physical Format

Paperback

Identifiers

  • ISBN-101933368802
  • ISBN-139781933368801
  • Goodreads263258
  • LibraryThing5127363
  • Open LibraryOL8813851M

Classifications

  • LCCPS

Description

Maggie Nelson's fourth 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.

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