From Publishers Weekly

"I didn't mean to hurt you, I am/ a beginner beginning to lose// sight of what I was beginning, I am/ beginning a house I am beginning// to grow filaments," explains Nelson's speaker, evoking the stutter, rush, repetition and impossibility of high-stakes communication. Her self-exacting speakers articulate the 20-something's struggle to understand, be understood, stay interested, get it right: "You have this many lines/ to get it done what? / Delineate the undelineatable/ i.e. cloud, motivation." (July 15)
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Review

"Mad, funny, smart and on fire simultaneously, these poems hold a special spin, pitch and complexity all of their own."

About the Author

Maggie Nelson is the author of numerous books of poetry and nonfiction, including Something Bright, Then Holes (Soft Skull Press, 2007) and Women, the New York School, and Other True Abstractions (University of Iowa Press, 2007). She lives in Los Angeles and teaches at the California Institute of the Arts.