Argonauts

The Argonauts

By Maggie Nelson

"A genre-bending memoir, a work of 'autotheory' offering. . . thinking about desire, identity, and the limitations and possibilities of love and language. At its center is a romance: the story of the author's relationship with the artist Harry Dodge. This story, which includes Nelson's account of falling in love with Dodge, who is fluidly gendered, as well as her journey to and through a pregnancy, offers a firsthand account of the complexities and joys of (queer) family-making"--Dust jacket flap.

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Publisher: Graywolf Press
Publish Date: 01/26/2016
Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9781555977351
ISBN-10: 1555977359
Language: English

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An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts is a genre-bending memoir, a work of "autotheory" offering fresh, fierce, and timely thinking about desire, identity, and the limitations and possibilities of love and language. 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.

About the Author

Maggie Nelson is a poet, a critic, and the author of several nonfiction books, including The Argonauts , The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning , Bluets , and Jane: A Murder.

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