The Latest Winter

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'Maggie Nelson is one of the most electrifying writers at work in America today, among the sharpest and most supple thinkers of her generation' Olivia Laing In this, her second anthology of poetry, Maggie Nelson experiments with poetic forms long and short as she charts intimate landscapes, including the poet's enmeshment in a beloved city-New York-before and after the events of 9/11. The poems of The Latest Winter are rich with wit, melancholy, terror, curiosity, and love.

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.

Nelson's writing is fluid - to read her story is to drift dreamily among her thoughts * Praise for The Argonauts, Huffington Post * Maggie Nelson writes like no one else on the planet * Praise for The Argonauts, Jezebel * One of the great gifts of Nelson's writing is how it embodies the process of her mind at work * Praise for The Argonauts, Los Angeles Review of Books * Nelson is so outrageously gifted a writer and thinker * Praise for The Argonauts, Washington Post * Nelson's poems move fast, think on their feet, hit and run with equal parts of humor; glamor and horror. In every way, she is a thoroughly original voice for our time. * Elaine Equi * Maggie Nelson [is] so much better than anything I've read for a long, long time * Praise for The Argonauts, Karl Ove Knausgaard * I read The Argonauts in one breathless, tearful, mind-blown day and I'm still recovering * Praise for The Argonauts, Miranda July *