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Published in a beautiful, collectible edition and for the first time in the UK, Something Bright, Then Holes is Maggie Nelson´s third collection of poetry from Zed Books.

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Maggie Nelson´s third 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.

Whatever the style, the poems are linked by Nelson´s singular poetic voice, as sly and exacting as it is raw. The collection is a testament to Nelson´s steadfast commitment to chart the facts of feeling, whatever they are, and at whatever the cost.

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Nelson, Maggie
Maggie Nelson is a poet, critic, and award-winning author of ´The Argonauts´, ´Bluets´, ´The Art of Cruelty´, ´Jane: A Murder´ and ´The Red Parts´. She lives in Los Angeles, California.

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