Something bright, then holes
By: Maggie Nelson.
Publisher: Soft Skull Press; Distributed by Publishers Group West
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Brooklyn, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 78
ISBN-13: 9781933368801
Description: Maggie Nelson's fourth 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.