Something Bright, Then Holes

ISBN: 1933368802

Author: Nelson, Maggie

Condition: New

Maggie Nelsons fourth collection of poems combines a wanderers 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 books 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 friends 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 Nelsons singular poetic voice, as sly and exacting as it is raw. The collection is a testament to Nelsons steadfast commitment to chart the facts of feeling, whatever they are, and at whatever the cost.